PSYC18H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Sui Generis, Hypothyroidism, Rationality
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Emotionality and rationality goes hand in hand, we just don"t know how. John locke: addressed the problem of identity and the experience of a continuous self. Individuals are described as acting in a calculating manner based on cool desires and the resulting feelings of pain or pleasure provide feedback as to the success or failure of their efforts. All actions are accompanied by feelings and the feelings tell you whether or not you believe what you did was wrong. John locke: one of the first few people who talked about the self. If you wake up and you"re not feeling well, you are in the state of low arousal, your day"s gonna. Moderate levels of arousal are ideal: shows performance between action and feeling. B. watson: emotions exist because they have evolutionary value, emotions can be dysfunctional if the arousal is too high, we inherit things that help us survive (in the emotional sense)
