Early Players Exploring Emotions In Dogs Flashcards
Who is the author of the paper titled ‘Affective Consciousness: Core Emotional Feelings in Animals and Humans’?
Jaak Panksepp
This paper was published in 2005.
What groundbreaking claim did Panksepp make about the emotional lives of mammals?
All mammals experience rich emotional lives
This was a significant shift from the prevailing belief that only humans and a select group of primates experienced emotions.
What was the scientific community’s general attitude towards Panksepp’s findings?
They were considered unfathomable and scientific heresy
Panksepp faced significant backlash and isolation from his peers.
What term gained prominence in the 1970s that combined fields like physiology, neurology, and psychology?
Neuroscience
This term marked a new era in scientific research but initially did not support animal welfare.
Who wrote ‘The Question of Animal Awareness, Evolutionary Continuity of Mental Experience’?
Donald Griffin
This book was published in 1976 and faced significant criticism from the scientific community.
What did Darwin argue in ‘The Descent of Man’ regarding the mental faculties of humans and higher mammals?
There is no fundamental difference in their mental faculties
Darwin emphasized that the difference is one of degree, not kind.
What was the main argument of William James in his 1890 textbook ‘The Principles of Psychology’?
Emotions are preceded by physiological responses
This challenged the traditional view of the emotional response sequence.
Fill in the blank: According to James, the autonomic response triggers the _______ of fear.
emotion
This is contrary to the common belief that emotions are evoked directly by stimuli.
What concept did Antonio Damasio introduce regarding emotions?
Interoception
Interoception is the perception of the body’s changing internal state.
What is the difference between emotions and feelings?
Emotions are observable behaviors; feelings are private experiences
Feelings can become observable only when attached to emotions.
True or False: Emotions and feelings are interchangeable terms in neuroscience.
False
Some neuroscientists, however, continue to confuse the two.
What did Panksepp’s EMOTION SYSTEMS include?
SEEKING, PLAY, CARE, FEAR
Each system drives specific behaviors related to emotional responses.
What is the significance of the term ‘emotional behavior’ in neuroscience research?
It describes how animals behave in an experiment
This term is crucial for understanding animal responses in emotional studies.
What are emotions according to LeDoux?
States of consciousness pieced together by complex cognitive mechanisms.
LeDoux emphasizes the need to understand the mechanisms of consciousness to comprehend how emotions arise.
What is the common term used in neuroscience research to describe how animals behave in experiments?
Emotional behaviour
This term is often used to assess animal responses in experimental settings.
What is the conditioned emotional response?
A widely used metric to describe how a rat responds to an electric shock.
This response is measurable and is often observed in animal experiments.
What do some neuroscientists believe about non-human animals and emotional feelings?
Most non-human animals lack the mental capacity to experience emotional feelings at all.
This belief leads to the neglect of the emotional feeling component in animal behaviour studies.
What significant revelation did the author have in 2022?
The richness of emotion science has been brought to the people through Karin Pienaar’s book.
This book serves as both a practical handbook and a popular science resource.
What is MHERA?
A methodology related to the study of animal emotionality.
MHERA’s rationale is informed by ongoing research into animal emotions.
True or False: The emotional feeling component of a rat’s response to an electric shock is considered relevant in neuroscience.
False
Neuroscientists often ignore the emotional feeling aspect in favour of observable behaviour.
Fill in the blank: The emotional feeling component of the rat’s response is completely _______ and considered irrelevant.
ignored
This highlights a gap in understanding animal emotional experiences.
What two categories does Karin Pienaar’s book fit into?
Dog book and popular science book
The book is noted for combining elements of both genres effectively.
