12.1 What Is Emotion?

Question 1

Pure autonomic faliure

Answer 1

Condition when output from the autonomic nervous system to the body fails

Question 2

James-Lange theory

Answer 2

Proposal that an event first provokes the autonomic arousal and skeletal responses and that the feeling aspect of emotion is the perception of those responses.

What you experience as an emotion is the label you give to your responses: You feel afraid BECAUSE you run away

Question 3

Panic attack

Answer 3

Period marked by extreme sympathetic nervous system arousal

Question 5

Limbic system

Answer 5

Interlinked structures that form a border around the brainstem

Question 8

Behavioral Activation System (BAS)

Answer 8

Left brain hemispheric activity marked by low to moderate autonomic arousal and a tendency to approach, which could characterize either happiness or anger

Question 9

Behavioral Inhibition System (BIS)

Answer 9

Right brain hemispheric activity, which increases attention and arousal, inhibits action, and stimulates emotions such as fear and disgust