General Education Science of Living Systems 20 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Prefrontal Cortex, Limbic System, Normative Social Influence
18 Mar 2016
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Lecture 8: emotion and motivation, approach motivation motivation to experience a positive outcome, avoidance motivation- motivation not to experience a negative outcome, avoidance motivation is usually stronger than approach motivation, the function of emotion. Thoughts vs. emotions: infinite variety vs. finite variety, no signature expression vs. signature expression, generally controllable vs. generally uncontrollable, generally cultural vs. generally universal, not always valenced (not always good or bad, like 4+4=8) vs. always valenced. The hedonic principle: people are motivated to experience pleasure and avoid pain. How immoral is it for a police offer to accept a bribe: bad. Low trust in feelings (made to remember 10 instances in which feelings were a good basis for their decisions, they couldn"t do 10 and thus had little trust in their feeling) High trust in feelings (made to remember 2 instances) High trust in feelings led to more obama votes: the experience of emotion, we think we have this intimate understanding of our emotions.
