PSY100H1 Lecture 7: PSY100 - Lecture 7, Dan Dolderman
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Psy100 lecture 7 october 4th, 2016. Cultural psychologists have looked at how psychological processes are affected by culture and the ecology of landscape of our ancestors. We are not thinking machines that feel; rather, we are feeling machines that think. Damasio says that thinking is built on top of feeling and feeling is built on top of physiological sensation. The way we rationally process information is guided by somatic signals that give us an indication how much attention we should give something, how important something is, etc. First, you get sensory input which triggers autonomic arousal. The autonomic arousal informs the prefrontal cortex (ventral-medial part: remember: the prefrontal cortex blends multiple streams of information together, acts as the headquarters in your head. The test subjects don"t know the above information. At first, results are random, win a little bit, lose a little bit. They are hooked up to indicators of autonomic arousal (measuring stress levels essentially)
