PSYC18H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Cognitive Map, Panic Disorder, Insular Cortex
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Lecture 6: how do emotions pertain to the body: emotions and body action, emotions and bodily feelings, emotions and body action. Once induced by emotion, reflex actions: mediates between organism and environment. b, automatic. i. e. : see a snake and immediately jumps back, this can"t be inhibited. Emotional reactions are awakened when organism is unable to respond in an orderly and efficient fashion to a highly stimulating situation . *emotion signals failure of instinct or presence of novelty. (instinct failed, so emotion help you plan in conscious ways, or when no instinct is available to help in novel situations). -how is emotion adaptive: energy that can be discharged by the body, something that tends to. Alert you about the problem, energize you to engage in problem solving. An emotion is a hereditary pattern-reaction involving changes of bodily mechanism as a whole, but particularly of the visceral and glandular systems .
