PSYC 351 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Amygdala, Teddy Bear, Cortisol

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 351
• Professor: Tom Hollenstein

Document Summary

Fear and anxiety still talking about this that are emerging by the end of the first year. You can finally learn not to do thing because you are afraid of them. Need to know what things in the environment are threatening and hat aren"t otherwise you will die. Scheerer and the z-scores of different emotions of different cultures across the world. External causation is important for fears, as well as unfairness. Being immoral has a high negative impact, so it is scary to be around. Known or certain, you are defiantly sure, direct about what is causing you fear. Unknown or uncertain, what is making you anxious may or may not be there, a vigilance, having fear about a future state. Preservation of ?, you don"t know what you"re afraid of. Can continue unabated for long periods, you will keep feeling anxious even when elicitor is gone overgeneralizations. Survival (freeze or flee), preservation, save your life.