PSYCH 135 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Affective Forecasting, Frontal Lobe
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It is a waste of time focusing too much on the future. Tendency to think were more unique than we actually are: have a hard time talking to other about our experiences. Our ability to plan and think about the future. In the frontal lobe, if it is damaged, it impairs planning and anxiety and you lose the ability of thinking about the future and you live in the same moment for the rest of your life. Nexting: preparing for what comes next (creating an expected through a learned association they aren"t actually thinking about eating the food, it"s more so about what is going to happen directly after) Similarities: filling in for each of these. For the future, it is all being filled in. Sometimes information (current experiences, emotions, environment) about the present moment can leak into our predictions about the future. We tend to think about the future abstractly.
