ILROB 1220 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Limbic System, Pretzel
27 Jun 2016
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Book: intense feelings directed at someone or something . Better: an appraisal of an event and one"s reaction to it . Better at go/no-go task as adults (original test would be ridiculous) Brain scans reveal more activity in prefrontal cortex (executive functioning - personality, upper level functions) Less likely to have a drug problem/be divorced/violate the law. More likely to have a higher salary. Managing competing motivations, especially short-term and long-term goals (eg. i want a cookie now, but i need to lose weight over the next month) Hot: emotional, impulsive, reflexive , limbic system. Cooling down the tempting stimulus by thinking more abstractly - can reimagine stimulus as something is looks like (eg. marshmallow is a cloud, pretzel is a log) Heating up the desired stimulus by thinking more concretely (eg. saving for retirement) Self-regulation dilemma (money now vs. money later) Hyperbolic discounting - people place more value on immediate rewards than delayed rewards.
