PSY240H1 Lecture Notes - Lie Detection, Parasympathetic Nervous System, Startle Response
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20% ppl experience a psychopathology in their lifetime. 10% of ppl are currently experiencing a psychopathology: cortex is responsible for making conscious questions, anxiety is the most common psychopathology, anxiety is not a bad thing. This is a anxiety disorder: anxiety is an unpleasant emotional state ranging from mild unease to intense fear, a certain amount of anxiety, however, is normal and serves to improve performance, anxiety rouses you to action. It gears you up to face a threatening situation. It makes you study harder for that exam, and keeps u on ur toes when ur making a speech. Startle response: hard wired response, wide eyed, pupil dilation, sweating. Startle is a reflex in the autonomic nervous system. We are hard-wired to perceive loud noises as dangerous. We can somewat objectively measure activation of the nervous system, and increase in arousal, anxiousness. Fight or flight is activated by startle response. Flight is preferable, fight is for being cornered.
