Chapter 10: Emotion and Motivation Flashcards
Emotion
an immediate, specific negative or positive response to environmental events or internal thoughts. typically have some kind of triggering event
Another Name For Emotion?
Affect
Emotion Has 3 Components
1) physiological process
2) behavioral response
3) a feeling
A Feeling
the subjective experience of the emotion
Moods
diffuse, long-lasting emotional states that do not have an identifiable trigger or a specific behavioral and physiological response
Primary Emotions
innate evolutionarily adaptive, and universal across cultures. ex. sadness, anger
Secondary Emotions
blends of primary emotions, feelings about emotions, or emotions that relate to culturally specific values or concepts. ex. shame, pride
Culturally Specific Emotion
the feeling of loss of face, sense of respect, honor, and social regard
Circumplex Model
emotions are plotted along two continuums: valence, or how negative or positive they are, and arousal. or how activating they are
Arousal
generic term used to describe physiological activation or increased autonomic responses
Limbic System
many subcortical brain regions are involved in emotion
Hippocampus
memory
Hypothalamus
Motivation
Most Important Limbic System Structures For Understanding Emotion? (2)
Insula and the Amygdala
Prefrontal Cortex
Important for generating emotions
Insula
receives and integrates somatosensory signals from the entire body
The Amygdala
-processes the emotional significance of stimuli, and it generates immediate emotional and behavioral reactions
-most important brain structure for emotional learning, as in the development of classically conditioned fear responses
“Quick and Dirty” System
processes sensory information nearly instantaneously, sensory information travels quickly through the thalamus directly to the amygdala for priority processing
Slow Path
sensory material travels from the thalamus to the cortex, where the information is scrutinized in greater depth before it is passed along to the amygdala
Emotional Events
likely to increase activity in the amygdala and that increased activity is likely to improve long-term memory for the event
Which Brain Structure Is Involved In The Perception Of Social Stimuli?
The Amygdala
James-Lange Theory
we perceive specific patterns of bodily responses, and as a result of that perception we feel emotion (Facial Feedback Hypothesis)
Cannon-Bard Theory
that information about emotional stimuli is sent to the mind and body separately
Schachter-Singer Two-Factor Theory
When people experience arousal, they initiate a search for its source
