BIOA02H3 Study Guide - Belongingness, Learned Helplessness, Motivation
21 Feb 2013
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Behaviour level: how well we wear our behaviour on our face. Autonomic level: the feeling we get inside. Hormonal level: give rise to different hormones depending on our emotion. A lot of our emotional states come from conditional states (little albert-becomes afraid of furry things, and as a result he started to fear other things) Through conditioning we learn to worry/ be fearful of something. Amygdala (very sensitive to conditioning)-it deals with the emotion of fear and any other negative emotional response. Brain chemistry: serotonin (high) we begin to feel good. Using drugs like prozac, they block the reuptake of serotonin, and prevent it from going back into neuron cells. It produces more serotonin in your brain, and therefore stops releasing serotonin. Emotions are caused by a chemical balance. Phineas gage: after his accident, his emotions/behaviour changed. We can feel that emotion but we shouldn"t tell everyone how we feel-requires prefrontal cortex.
