thing this is pretty clever noticed that each of you reacted differently james reaction you might call one of fear i'll say gene threw away from the box that's what you generally do when you're afraid of something on the other hand warns reaction you might call rage he was ready for a fight what happened to me what did i do you laugh you were pleased you drew closer to the b you like this psychologically we classify that sort of response with what we call the basic emotions of love and so we have examples of each just the three basic emotions fear rage and lo why did we act that way i didn't want to be afraid our emotional reactions are involuntary pretty much automatic well if that's the case then why work on our reactions to say well gee when we're born emotional reactions are pretty much the same in everyone but as we grow older each of us develops his own individual set of responses paths why is that mr grech conditioning what conditioning is over here did you ever see a mouse that acted as if you were us fraid of cheese when it was confronted with a piece of cheese it responded by going toward it but when the mouse was given a mild electric shock as it approached the cheese it responded by running back after this procedure was repeated for some time the mouse began to associate the cheese with the electric shock and because he was afraid of the shock the mouse was conditioned to be afraid of cheese now he responds to cheese as he would ordinarily respond to an electric shock that's what we call condition that we hitch up a stimulus the cheese with a new response must be pretty hard on the mouse but it doesn't happen to people that way does it let's find out come over here warm hold your hand out like bits that's right now and just try to hold it steady don't let your hand move just hold it steady but you're pushing it down just hold it steady steady steady pace is what i know that's a case of simple conditioning not involving emotions this time but still conditioning is that the reason that gene stares so easily but she's afraid of my very possibly conditioning is the reason while we're very young the actions and attitudes of our parents and brothers and sisters condition us to a great many emotional response we all have of course most of our conditioning is much more complex than the sort we've shown so far we often become conditioned to react emotionally to words or ideas words i can't believe that you can well remember emotional behavior is largely involuntary here come over here and take a look at this model of the brain this is the front of it emotions are centered in the lower part of the brain the foam the third element is not consciously control emotions are stimulated a reaction in directly affecting the self can produce changes in you and your body for example you all three reacted to the jack in the box your facial expressions and actions change and that was without any conscious effort or control it wasn't well in the same way your reactions can produce involuntary changes within your body for example these glands may produce tear that's common an emotional response other glands such as the adrenals and the liver work harder sweat glands in your skin reduce first ration your stomach slows down it's just your heartbeat changes sometimes faster or sometimes slower and you agree that changes these are many other changes are part of emotional response and we can detect some of these changes to measure emotional response made you get this device called a polygraph measures variations in breathing and heartbeat and so indicates emotional response  larry you didn't think you would react emotionally to word do you want to try it sure is this something like a lie detector it's been called that but actually it measures in three kinds of emotional response this part is the pneuma graph or bellows which measures your respiration or freezing now if you roll up your sleeve larry will put this arm band on your arm and this will record your quote or heartbeat you've probably seen one of these in the doctor's office haven't you larry yes to now if larry makes an emotional response to anything i mentioned you'll notice a change on this record oh this one hurts the are you really just relax larry notice how regularities breathing is now and his poll as the fans gradually fill in the grass larry responds to the word still that's interesting has a dentist on his m this is just a hunch but perhaps if we probe deeply there's another word pro well i think i can get several words that will arouse an emotional response in lar how did that happen well come on over here to the blackboard maybe a five drawn time gram of the process of conditioning it will help you as one of the first stimulus stands for the dentists he's a good fell the normal response to pain is a desire to get away a type of fear response each time larry went to the dentist it was something like the mouse and the chief the dentist stimulus became associated with the response of pain and fear until there is conditioned to react to even words about the benefits with the pain fear response this conditioning may wear off after a while or it may end up emotional disturbances it's a good idea to be conditioned to stop whenever you see or read graphic life well then we want to get rid of unhealthy conditioning i don't want to be a scary can all my life that's right if you want to grow into a mature balance that's a matter of conditioning to condition yourself to make more mature responses now let's review of it we have certain basic emotions which are controlled sub consciously they are modified and changed by a process called conditioning now by understanding conditions and usually we can more easily achieve emotional let's remember what happened with the jack and about each of you made a different response but all your responses were a little immature but toure persons respond in a more balanced manner  their responses include a little of each basic emotion and fear for protection a little anger or rage if being made foolish a spark of the love response that is interest i'm beginning to see that how important it is to understand your emotions