PSY331H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Limbic System, Autonomic Nervous System, Brainstem
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Affective responses are preprogrammed and involuntary, but are also shaped by life experiences. Basic embodies 2 characteristics: emotions are discrete can be distinguished from one another, emotions have evolved through adaptation to our surroundings. Each emotion prompts us in a direction that has done better than other solutions in recurring circumstances. Phylogenetic and ontogenetic contributions: ontogenetic product of social learning. Each emotion is not a single affective or psychological state rather a family of related states. An emotion is either basic, or it is another affective phenomenon saturated with but different from the emotions: ex. Other affective states do not possess universal, distinctive signals: nor is it certain they have distinctive antecedent events. The central mechanisms that guide our emotional responses are set into action by automatic appraising mechanisms. Affect program: an inherited central mechanism that directs emotional behavior. Many areas of the brain are involved in generating emotional behavior. All mammals that manifest emotions will have open affect programs.
