PSY398H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Laterality, David Buss, Operant Conditioning
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6 basic emotions = anger, fear, disgust, surprise, happy, sadness. Mood induction = think of things that make you sad. Emotionally evocative stimuli= pictures of emotional scenes or words vs natural scenes. Reward & punishment = eliciting emotion in nonhuman animals (treats/shock etc) I was so mad i couldn"t think straight, i would never forget something like that. Affective judgments occur before & independently of cognition. Phineas gage: foreman of construction crew building the railroad in vermont. Blast sent a iron rod through his left cheek and out the top of his head. Hard worker, energetic, clear thinker impatient, rude, anger & rage, no plan of action. Neural systems in social & emotional processing orbitofrontal cortex. Decision making choosing how to act, incoming stimuli & our values, goals, emotional state, social situation. Ofc important in processing, evaluating & filtering social, emotional information. Damage to ofc impairs ability to make decisions that require feedback from social and emotional cues.
