Early Players Exploring Emotions In Dogs Flashcards
What are the two eras described in relation to emotional understanding?
There’s a ‘Before-Panksepp,’ the age of emotional endarkenment, and an ‘After-Panksepp,’ where we are now in the age of emotional enlightenment.
Who were Charles Darwin and William James in the context of emotions?
Both felt that animals were being driven by emotions and feelings, and their writings on emotionality remain relevant today.
What significant contribution did Santiago Ramón y Cajal make to neuroscience?
He developed a method of staining neurons in the 1880s, allowing for detailed study of neurons.
What does Carroll E. Izard define as emotion?
Emotion consists of neural circuits that are dedicated response systems and a feeling state that motivates and organizes cognition and action.
What implications arise if we accept that animals can feel basic emotions?
Animal testing should be viewed similarly to testing on humans and should be deemed an illegal practice.
What is a key finding regarding brain areas implicated in emotion?
The brain areas implicated in emotion are remarkably similar in humans and other animals and can be seen using imaging techniques like PET scans.
How are the brain areas implicated in emotion characterized across species?
They are deep subcortical areas that are evolutionarily conserved and neuroanatomically similar in humans and other mammals.
As evidence of for Panksepp emotional systems, they found when the FEAR System was stimulated…
When stimulated, it coordinates behavioral and physiological responses and generates the affective response, such as the feeling of fear. (Outlined in COAPE International Diploma)
As evidence for core emotional systems suggested by Panksepp, Evolutionary common sense suggests what about the relation between emotion, homeostasis, and cognition?
Emotion is seen as an extension of homeostasis, and cognition is viewed as an extension of emotion. The homeostatic mechanisms are largely unconscious, but evolved into conscious, emotional feedback systems which let the animal know how things were going.
What is Panksepp’s view on affects in relation to behavior?
Affects (feelings) are crucially important for conditioning, reinforcement, and punishment, contrasting with the behaviorist view that outside events can reinforce behavior without associated feelings.
