PSYC18H3 Final: Lecture notes for FINAL
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*(def on final) pribram: memory based theory of emotion: he offers a memory based theory of emotion rather than a viscerally or arousal based theory, he takes into account past experience and the present, emotion-evoking situation. 3. emotion is related to the plans or projects rather than the level of activation. 4. organized stability is the baseline from which disturbances or perturbations occurs. Input that is incongruent with the baseline produces a disturbance. Emotion is a perturbation, an interruption, disruption of normal ongoing activity. (a) inhibition of peripheral inputs while organism decides what to do. (b) facilitation of attention to critical inputs from the environment. The value of emotion is that it wakes you up that something is wrong and focus on inpuot to attend carefully to situational demands. * they follow in the tradition of mandler and pribram by focusing on the interruption of goals.
