Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 31: Polygraph, Daniel Kahneman, Vasodilation

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Dr.Mike

Document Summary

425-444: discussion on intelligence, open next week. Questions to be answered: how do we self-regulate, does arousal produce pleasure? (depends) If you lie to someone, you try to conceal your face and movements of your hands (70% correctness: average is close to 55, some people better, kraut & poe (1980, (cid:272)usto(cid:373)s offi(cid:272)ials. Leach et al: poli(cid:272)e & (cid:272)usto(cid:373) offi(cid:272)ers with (cid:272)hildre(cid:374, people are poor at picking up deception, breaking eye contact is an indicator for lying, does not work all the time. Motivation: what is that makes organisms do what they do, control mechanisms: positive or negative feedback. Basic biological control: orienting responses or taxes, overall musculature response toward (positive) or away from (negative) a stimulus, ex. Positive phototaxis in moth: homeostatic mechanisms, maintaining a constant state, ex. Our own internal mechanisms like regulating body temperature: self regulation: homeostatic mechanisms, importance of autonomic nervous system (ans, ex.