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Psychology
Undergraduate 4
05/06/2014

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The purpose of emotion in motivated behavior
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• Emotions provide other organisms w/info of your internal state• Emotions set the reinforcing properties of events or anticipated outcomes • How we think about a situation has a lot to do w/how we feel about it.
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o Orbicularis oculi muscle:
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edge of eye that controls shape of skin w/true genuine smile vs faking it
• Social vs spontaneous smile
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• Emotions set the reinforcing properties of events or anticipated outcomes
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o Emotions can set goals, or be goals themselves
• I want to feel good about my grades
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• How we think about a situation has a lot to do w/how we feel about it.
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o Moving to NYC
• Excited- you go explore try new things ,
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• Study in 1974: male subjects cross either dangerous bridge or sturdy bridge and are met by attractive woman
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o Dangerous bridge: more likely to call and scored higher on sexual imagery
• The danger increased arousal, they attributed it to the hott girl
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o Going somewhere exciting for a first date:
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the attribute the arousal w/you
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o James Papez 1937 coined term
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limbic system,
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limbic system
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described as collection of regions that are involved in emotional responses/process and responding of emotion
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3 steps of emotional response
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1. emotional behaivor
2. autonomic change
3. hormonal change
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3 steps/components of emotions organized by
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amygdala
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o Hypothalamus lesion and PreFrontalCorex lesions resulting in vs damage to amygdala
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aggression o AMYgdala is in the center of these two brain regions and damage seems to have opposite effect
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o Amygdala gates info from
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hypothalams and PFC
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• If amy is damaged,
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there is nothing left to be inhibited
• The result is calmness
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toxoplasmosis-
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bacteria that can only reproduce in cat intestines and then animals eat feces and become infected and goes to brain and eats Amygdala
 In terms of behavior, this animal who loses its behavior is calm and not be afraid of cats anymore. Rats seem to be attracted to cat urine, then the cat eats it, bacteria can be reproduce again.
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amydala calcification (Urbach-wiethe disease)-
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genetic disorder causes Ca brain cells of amygdala and ppl w/it dont feel fear and no stress response.
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Strategic use of emotions
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• Costs letting someone get away w/something
• Prevents even small slights for fear or irrational response
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according to cog-phys theory what should we do when we experience unexplained arousal?
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Attempt to give it a label
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Clicker: I’m working hard b/c I am excited for Friday this illustrates that:
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• An emotion is helping me reach a goal
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