PSYCH 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Facial Action Coding System, House Mouse, Tufted Capuchin
31 Aug 2016
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Review of last lecture: methods aren"t rigorous, results cannot be trusted, variety of perspectives of analysis to explain same phenomenon: Evolution, biology, culture, individual development, individual differences/personality, situation/social context. Some methods used by psychologists: different measures of emotion by each type of analysis, measuring emotion. Skin conductance (and other physiological arousal measures) Lose ability to distinguish between different types of emotion. However, process can influence subject"s emotions & is expensive: methods involving animals. Can offer a really simple nervous system. If interested in certain neuro-activity easier to look at animals. Has a very simple nervous system 20,000 neurons: sometimes as big as 1 mm. Fear conditioning: consistent pairing of an auditory tone with the delivery of a shock. Easily measured in mice (e. g, freezing behavior: good understanding of pathway of fear. Teach monkeys how to use non-human currency. Tokens to buy pieces of food from humans: realized that they can exchange tokens for food, monkey marketplace.
