PSY494H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Ifalik, Grammatical Tense, Appraisal Theory
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Biologically distinct things in the brainseparate emotional brain. There is a thinking processor that is faster and parallel than the cognitive processor. The first data that you extract from the world. Mere exposure: repetition results in greater liking. What ends up making you like it is the one that you have seen more. Nothing about the objects itself, but the exposure. Don"t know why you like something but just like it. In non chinese speakers, showed masking stimulus. You see the characters of chinese words, and another stimulus is shown after. The affect of prime makes you like it more: smile make you more likely to like it. An angry face will make you like it less. What makes you like it is unconscious. Having access to seeing the smiley or angry face makes you not like it and like it more. In adults and children: they show the same level of preference for objects.
