PSYC18H3 Lecture Notes - Psychophysiology, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Behavioralism
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When something doesn"t fit, body changes to signal us that we need to do something about it: emotion was an e-motion, something that takes us out of motion. Body responds to signal for need to implement strategies for coping with the change in motion. Helps shut out unnecessary distracters, i. e. inhibit peripheral input. Helps you focus into need of situation, i. e. facilitation of attention to critical points. People with ptsd have inability to shut down inputs from traumatic experience. Pribram talks about attention for coping responses, and blocking out distracters. All of these emotions are redefined in terms of facilitation, inhibition, achievement of goals: brain is organized in modules engineering analysis of emotions. Coping responses are chains of activity, and modules are each step: phenomenology science of experience, at top of hierarchy a big plan. All the modules below are governed by big plan and everything is a chain of modules: caused emotion something did it to you.
