PSYA01H3 Lecture Notes - Reduced Affect Display, Proprioception, Auditory Cortex
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Central nervous system: where the real/deep decisions in our system are made. Peripheral nervous system: takes messages from spinal cord out to muscles or from our sensory system to our spinal cord. Our body has two modes that cannot co-exist. One system is responsible for keeping us alive on the short term, and the other is designed forfor short term, and once helps us live longer. When body is in full relaxation, the following takes place: Heart rate slows down, breathing rate slows down, not sweating, mouth gets wet, When something alarming happens, the sympathetic system goes into action: heart rate gets faster, breathing is heavy, sweat glands open up to heal your body. This is known as the fight or flee response: fighting, fleeing, feeding, making love(fucking) Teach people systematic desensitization: a process to help relax someone. The fighting fleeing system is about short term survival.
