PSYC 10a Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Mesocortical Pathway, Freisen, Dopaminergic Pathways

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Pattern of physiological changes that help prepare the body for fight or flight . Muscles tense, heart rate and breathing increase, release of endorphins, focused attention. Beneficial for instinctive, well-practiced or physical tasks. Harmful for novel, creative, or careful judgement tasks. Common sense might suggest that the perception of a stimulus elicits emotion which then causes bodily arousal. That is, we feel and emotion and then take action: feel fear, then run! Valence (positive: intrinsic attractiveness / negative: aversiveness) (cid:315) the probability of states of whether our bodies or of the world that have negative value for us. Or (cid:313) the probability of states that have positive value for us. One particularly important type of valuation is emotion . Arise when we attend to a situation we see as relevant to our goals. Triggers loosely coordinated set of experiential, behavioral, and peripheral physiological responses. Shapes how we feel about and respond to the world around us.

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