Chapter 15 terms Flashcards
Emotion
a subjective mental state that is usually accompanied by distinctive behaviors, feelings, and involuntary physiological changes.
James-Lange theory of Emotion
We feel emotions because of our bodily changes. Emotions differ due to different physiological responses
Schachter’s Cognitive Atrribution model
Emotional labels (i.e. joy, anger, sadness) are attributed to relatively nonspecific feelings of physiological arousal The physical response comes before the emotion and emotion is just how our brain interprets the physiological arousal.
Evolutionary psychology
Study of how natural selection has shaped behavior
Individual response stereotypy
The tendency of individuals to have different patterns of emotional reactivity from each other and keep the same response pattern throughout their lives
Facial feedback hypothesis
Suggests that sensory feedback from our facial expressions can affect our mood supporting the James-Lange theory
Brain self-stimulation
An animal’s ability to perform a task to provide electrical stimulation to their brain- also works in humans.
Medial Forebrain bundle
A tract that rises from the midbrain through the hypothalamus, contains many sites for self-stimulation
Decorticate rage (sham rage)
A sudden intense rage in dogs with their cortex remove, suggesting that the cortex inhibits rage.
The Papez circuit
Interconnected brain regions within the limbic system
Kluver-Bucy syndrome
Characterized by reduction of fear and anxiety, oral tendencies, hypersexuality; results from bilateral removal of large portions of temporal lobe.
Fear Conditioning
a type of classical conditioning where a previously neutral stimulus is repeatedly paired with a unpleasant experience, causing the subject to act fearful in response tot he previously neutral stimulus.
