11.4 Emotion

Question 1

Autonomic nervous system

Answer 1

instinctive responses to threats
Sympathetic - fight or flight
Parasympathetic - returns to baseline

Question 1

Emotion

Answer 1

a behaviour with the following three components
1. a subjective thought and/or experience with
2. accompanying patterns of neural activity and physical arousal and
3. an observable behavioural expression

Question 2

Amygdala

Answer 2

a group of nuclei in the medial portion of the temporal lobes in each hemisphere of the brain that facilitates memory formation for emotional events, mediates fear response, and appears to play a role in recognizing and interpreting emotional stimuli

Question 3

James-Lange theory of emotion

Answer 3

this view suggested that out physiological reactions to stimuli precede the emotional experience

Question 4

Cannon-Bard theory of emotion

Answer 4

suggested that the brain interprets a situation and generates subjective emotional feelings, and that these representations in the brain trigger responses in the body

Question 5

Facial feedback hypothesis

Answer 5

suggests that our emotional expressions can influence our subjective emoitonal states

Question 6

Two-factor theory

Answer 6

holds that patterns of physical arousal and the cognitive labels we attach to them form the basis of our emotional experiences

Question 7

Microexpressions

Answer 7

brief expressions of our true feelings

Question 8

Emotional dialects

Answer 8

variations across cultures in how common emotions are expressed

Question 9

Display rules

Answer 9

refer to the unwritten expectations we have regarding when it is appropriate to show a certain emotion