PSYC18H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Striatum, Counterintuitive, Stroop Effect
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Week 12 lecture #11: thursday july 28, 2016. What is disordered: there is an imbalance among emotions. Emotion response that might not be balanced or appropriate. Not good to have an (over) variety of emotions. Good to have a ton of anxiety if running into snake. If we translate this emotion to everyday functioning, it becomes maladaptive & a. A balance of emotions is important, it"s not that emotions are good or bad, but it"s how we regulate them appropriately in the context we"re in. 2 modes of mind: sensory/perceptual, verbal & conceptual. Verbal/conceptual occurs naturally (we think about what we"re gonna have for dinner) If you have an emotional disorder, this can be very tricky. Sensory/perceptual: very basic and doesn"t involve any other mental thinking. We switch bwt the two, but most of the time we engage in verbal more. There are two modes of minds that we can be in at any given time.
