PSY100H1 Chapter Notes -Konrad Lorenz, Prefrontal Cortex, Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder
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Chapter 9: motivation and emotion (pages 416 435: emotions: feelings involving subjective evaluation, physiological processes & cognitive beliefs, moods vs emotion verbal vs non-verbal. Primary emotions: evolutionary adaptive, shared across cultures, associated with specific biological & physical states: anger, fear, sadness, disgust, happiness --- surprise & contempt. Physical reaction (sub-cortex: damage to amygdala: feel fear but no conditioned fear. Info reaches the amygdala in 2 ways: quick & dirty: process sensory info instantaneously (thalamus amygdala, thorough evaluations (thalamus visual cortex, amygdala has greater activity when looking at frightened faces. Chapter 11: human development (pages 481 531: developmental psychology: study of changes in physiology, cognition & social behavior. Physical development: basic brain areas: by week 4, cortex cells: week 7, thalamus & hippocampus: week 10, right & left hemispheres: week 12, lower thyroid = lower iq, teratogens: environmental stimuli that harm embryo or fetus. Anxious-ambivalent: inconsolably upset; seek & reject; 10-15% Disorganized attachment: mixed response: chemistry: release of oxytocin.
