PSYA02H3 Lecture 13: Emotion
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Emotion can get in the way of rational thinking and rational thought"s ability to guide behaviour. We"re motivated to do things and motivated to get away from things depending on our emotions. Three levels you can talk about in terms of emotions: actual behaviours that emotion produces (can be complex behaviours) outward indications of our emotional states and a lot of this is regulated by the autonomic nervous system. When emotional stimuli hits, it gives rise to sympathetic nervous sytems which releases hormones. Study of emotion cam from study of behaviour. Eugenics everything is a reflection of the genetic influences behaviourists were against this. Little albert: induce fear in babies that they did not fear before (conditioned response) Emotions of threat are treated as a priority in comparison to the more mundane reactions (i. e. happiness, sadness) Part of the brain that is responsible is the amygdala early warning system.
