PSYB45H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Executive Functions, Decision-Making, Antonio Damasio
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*mackay and castle article is testable on the final exam. Example: happy or sad: another piece is a physiological or behavioral response. For example: feeling anxious causes a pounding heart and rapid breathing: the final piece of emotions is the cognitive appraisal or a cognitive understanding of why you feel the way you feel. Infants that are born with poor vision that is about 20/400 can demonstrate many of these early emotions before having an opportunity to learn them from others. This is a cross-cultural thing and cuts into all cultures: emotion involves much of the brain and our ability to experience emotion or control emotion and have it be useful for things like decision making. Emotional content may boost memorability: emotion can potentially boost memory for events that have an emotional piece. In an experiment, they tell you to look at pictures. Participants are shown a neutral picture, which is not meant to cause a lot of emotion.
