Chapter 17 - Emotion Flashcards
James-Lange theory
The theory that emotional experience results from the brain’s perception of the pattern of autonomic and somatic nervous system responses elicited by emotion-inducing sensory stimuli.
Cannon-Bard theory
The theory that emotional experience and emotional expression are parallel processes that have no direct causal relation.
Decorticate
Lacking a cortex.
Sham rage
The exaggerated, poorly directed aggressive responses of decorticate animals.
Limbic system
A collection of interconnected nuclei and tracts that borders the thalamus and is widely assumed to play a role in emotion.
Kluver-Bucy syndrome
The syndrome of behavioral changes (e.g., lack of fear and hypersexuality) that is induced in primates by bilateral damage to the anterior temporal lobes.
Amygdala
A structure in the anterior temporal lobe, just anterior to the hippocampus; plays a role in emotion.
Polygraphy
A method of interrogation in which autonomic nervous system indexes of emotion are used to infer the truthfulness of the responses.
Control-question technique
A lie-detection interrogation method in which the polygrapher compares the physiological responses to target questions with the responses to control questions.
Guilty-knowledge technique
A lie-detection method in which the polygrapher records autonomic nervous system responses to a list of control and crime-related information known only to the guilty person and the examiner.
Facial feedback hypothesis
The hypothesis that our facial expressions can influence how we feel.
Duchenne smile
A genuine smile, one that includes contraction of the facial muscles called the orbicularis oculi.
Defensive behaviors
Behaviors whose primary function is protection from threat or harm.
Aggressive behaviors
Behaviors whose primary function is to threaten or harm other organisms.
Alpha-male
The dominant male of a colony.
Target-site concept
The idea that aggressive and defensive behaviors of an animal are often designed to attack specific sites on the body of another animal while protecting specific sites on its own.
Fear conditioning
Establishing fear of a previously neutral conditional stimulus by pairing it with an aversive unconditional stimulus.
Contextual fear conditioning
The process by which benign contexts (situations) come to elicit fear through their association with fear-inducing stimuli.
Hippocampus
A structure of the medial temporal lobes that plays a role in memory for spatial location.
Lateral nucleus of the amygdala
The nucleus of the amygdala that plays the major role in the acquisition, storage, and expression of conditioned fear.
Prefrontal cortex
The areas of frontal cortex that are anterior to the frontal motor areas.
Central nucleus of the amygdala
A nucleus of the amygdala that is thought to control defensive behavior.
It was apparent that the damage to Gage’s brain affected both __________, which we now know are involved in _______ and ________.
Medial prefrontal lobes,
Planning,
Emotion
Limbic system consists of
Amygdala Mammillary body Hippocampus Fornix Cortex of the cingulate gyrus Septum Olfactory bulb Hypothalamus