PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Parachuting, Developmental Disorder, Amygdala

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100
• Professor: Ingrid Johnsrude

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Pns, activation of pns)-->subjective experience (conscious, individuals experiences, internal) Darwin suggested that facial expressions were a mean of communication in the absence of language. Can read emotions through facial expressions of others; learns to avoid or engage that person. Certain facial expressions are hardwired and universal --> extinctive smile if happy, frown if angry. Eg. fear--> flee and avoid danger; love-->entice you to reproduce + care for offspring. Negative facial expressions are detected quicker--> quicker to find threat + respond. Positive emotions promote growth, bonding, reproduction--> seeking a mate, taking care of offspring. Parasympathetic + sympathetic ns parasympathetic: active when you"re relaxed sympathetic: activated when you"re under stress both under autonomous nervous system. Q: which of the organs listed below is not directly involved in the autonomic nervous system? a)heart b)sweat glands c)smooth muscle d)skeletal muscle e)salivary glands. ->all the other organs are not under our conscious control. ->ans responsible for f"ns which we have no conscious control over.