PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Frontal Lobe, Binge Eating, Binge Eating Disorder

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100
• Professor: Jill L Atkinson

Document Summary

Biological: physiological arousal of emotion pathway in the brain, like increase heart rate and breathing. Cognitive: subjective feeling by giving label, like anger, fear, happiness and sadness. Social: how people express behavior, like facial expression: motivation: process to meet needs and wants. Social: competition, status, goals and expectations, or personal responsibility: regulatory drives. Safety: sleep and fear motivate us to replenish our bodies and avoid danger. Reproductive (sexual, maternal, and sexual jealous drives that motivate us to reproduce, care for our young and guard mates) Social: (approval and acceptance drives that motivate us to cooperate) Educative: (play and exploration, which motivate us to practice our skills and learn about our environments: motivational states. The cessation of previously enjoyable behavior is the over-justification effect: eating disorders: Anorexia nervosa : a lack of food or appetite, because of fearing gaining weight. The james-lange theory: ans activation comes before the emotion is experienced.