ANTH 7 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Motion Sickness, Oedipus Complex, Chemoreceptor Trigger Zone
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Disgust, disgust emotion program overview, function 1, ancestral adaptive problem, what to eat, different toxin levels inside different plants, you can detect likely toxin levels which motivate food choice, want to choose those with low toxin levels. If something is going to kill you, your mothers milk has antibodies: not a bad idea to get milk as soon as possible, behaviorists and domain general cognitive and social psychology, equipotentiality assumption. It is equally easy to pair any stimulus with any response: there are a small number of evolved primary reinforcers: Feeding tube position varied: the infant from an evolutionary history know their mother to be something with fur, developed attachment to the fur even though its emotion and motionless. Furriness is a stronger cue than food that it is your mother: harlow results violate the equipotentiality assumption. If the training was with a shock, they avoided the raid light. So vision should predict it, not taste + other senses.
