PSY290H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Basal Ganglia, Startle Response, Limbic System
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Intra-subjective: what you feel within and only you experience them and they exist within you. Cannot be verified, but behaviours can be verified. In modern psychology, motivation and decision making cannot be distinguished from one another. Cannon-bard theory says patterns of arousal occur simultaneous to particular emotion experienced. After a bang, you have a startle response (behavior which is not seen in the views we have: folk, Perception is caused by stimulus, then you run while your body has an autonomic response, and then you feel fear -> emotion cannot be the cause of the behaviour. But we can have some emotions which do cause behaviors ---> mood disorders. In different contexts, behavior and autonomic response remain same but emotion changes accordingly (fear vs. joy) Even if no motor response action is selected, you still experience emotion. Sympathetic blockage due to injury or propranolol, you can still experience emotion.
