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EMOTION and MOTIVATION (Sex (motivations: (fulfill "duty"…

- - - - signals brain to DECREASE appetite and increase enrgy expenditure
      - leptin defiecient mice are obese
    - - Women over-estimate how thin they need to be
      - Men overestimate how bulky they need to be
    - - 52.5% are either overweight or obese in Canada
        
        19.8% of those are obese men
        
        16.8% of those women are obese
      - We used to need more calories to stay a live really
        
        We've got cars now #
      - Genetic influence:
        
        basal metabolism and tendency to store energy as fat or lean tissue
      - environmental Causes
        
        Inexpensive, tasty foods high in fat or carbs
        
        supersizig due to cultural value of getting best value
        
        technological advances
    - - health concerns
      - psychological and social concerns
        
        psycholoical applications:
      - may evolve into eating disorder
  - - - food variety
      - smell and sight of food
        
        classically conditioned
      - presence of others
      - Familiarity of food
        
        tastes can be culturally specific
- - - - stabilize the land
  - - - Androgens ave primary influence of sexual desire
  - - - cuture shapes expression of sexuality
        
        Amish vs. current western dress
    - - Sexual orientation
        
        Emotional & Erotic preferences for partners of particular sex
        
        Unidimensional view
        
        strict "exclusively heterosexual" to Exclusively homosexual"
        
        3-dimensional view, based on
        
        Self-identity
        
        sexual attraction
        
        actual behaviour
        
        Constant reinvention of what it means to be human, thoughts felings, and creation, basic principles of life
        
        Early, now invalid theories about determinants
        
        Differeneces in sex hormones
        
        ineffectual father or dominering mother (thanks freud)
        
        Seducation by adult homosexual
        
        Current theories of determinants
        
        hereditary predisposition
        
        biological(debated)
        
        psychological (debated)
        
        environmental (debated)
- - - - Strive hard for success when perceives:
      - Ambitious
      - Persist longer at difficult task
      - Perform best when conditions are challenging
    - - Indivualistic cultures stress personal acheivement
      - Collectivistic cultures
        
        pressure to meet expectations of family and social group
- - - - Narrow attention
        
        increases physiological activation
  - - - information about internal state
      - Influence others; behaviour towards us
        
        Ex. Self-fulfilling prophecy concerning perceived neg. emotions towards us
  - - - amygdala
        
        processes input before cortex interprets
        
        ex. removal of visual cortex in rats did not impair classically conditioned fear response
      - hippocampus
      - Hypothalmus
    - - prefrontal cortex
        
        ability to regulate emotion
  - - - Joy
      - Fear
      - Alarm
- - - - Influences expressions and actions
      - different reactions to the same event
    - - other emotions produce culturally different responses
  - - - Anger, fear or sadness can evoke empathy #
        
        Empathy: another;s vdisplay of emotion evokes similar feelings in you
  - - - Stimuli to Thalamus to cortex to emotion
- - - - Expression of ccertain emotions- similar across variery of cultures