PSY 2110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Ultimatum Game, Reciprocal Altruism, Embodied Cognition
23 Jan 2018
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The idea that changes in the body, experienced as emotion, guide decision making. Marker = a physiological response involved in an emotion. Decision making = a judgement of the best among several alternatives: the emotional reaction to real events includes physiological changes in the body (i. e. , somatic markers) E. g. , internal organs and muscles: through experience, these somatic markers" become associated with particular situations i. e. , there is a mental representation of the event it"s associated somatic markers. Thus, just imagining the situation can activate this representation: in both cases (real events or imagined events) judgement and decision making mechanisms in the frontal lobes incorporate this information. These physiological signals mark behaviour or various decision making options with an emotional signal. In other words, they give them an emotional value. So that we don"t have to value them consciously. E. g. , avor vs. nutrition for cereal: evidence for the smh comes from those with damage to the ventral medial prefrontal cortex (vmpfc)
