Chapter 8 - Emotion And Health

Question 1

James-Lange theory:

Answer 1

Emotional experience results from the physiological arousal that precedes it.

Stimulus —

Question 2

Cannon-Bard theory:

Answer 2

Mental and physiological components of emotions happen simultaneously. Focused on brain pathway.

Stimulus —

Question 3

Schacter-Singer theory:

Answer 3

Physiological arousal contributes only to the emotion’s intensity.

Stimulus —

Question 4

In the 30s and 40s researchers proposed that emotions originated in the _________.

Answer 4

Limbic system.

Question 5

Brief stress increases activity in the ________.

Answer 5

Immune system

Question 6

Hypothalamus:

Answer 6

Primary control over the autonomic nervous system and produces a variety of emotional expression.

Sympathetic vs. parasympathetic

Question 7

Anterior cingulate cortex:

Answer 7

Attention, cognitive processing, emotion.

Combine emotional, attentional, and bodily information to bring about conscious emotional experience.

Frontal lobe

Question 8

Prefrontal cortex:

Answer 8

Final destination for much of the brains information about emotion before action is taken.

Question 9

Amygdala:

Answer 9

Involved in negative emotions.

Participates in memory function, when emotion is involved.

Question 10

Cerebellum:

Answer 10

Involved in regulating emotional behaviors.

Smiling/frowning

Damage: can’t experience positive emotions.

Question 11

Hemispheres involved in the experience of emotions _______

Answer 11

Both left and right.

Left, positive
Right, negative