Emotion

Question 1

What is emotion made of?

Answer 1

Feeling
Cognition
Action

Question 2

What does the autonomic NS do?

Answer 2

Conveys sensory info to the rest of the brain

Stimulates reflex actions

Largely unconscious

Question 3

Whats the James-Lange theory?

Answer 3

People with paralysis still report emotions but people with autonomic failure report less intense emotion

Induced smiling, frowning etc

Question 4

What did Panksepp find?

Answer 4

Emotion systems are sub cordial and ancient, shared with other animals

Question 5

What’s does the limbic system do?

Answer 5

Crucial to emotion and motivation
- sensory input
- emotional responses to pain
- regulates behaviours

Question 6

Is the brain lateralised for emotion?

Answer 6

Left hemisphere relates to the behavioural activation system
- low/moderate arousal
- happiness and anger
- left frontal and temporal lobes

Right hemisphere relates to behavioural inhibition system
- increased attention and arousal
- disgust and fear
- right frontal and temporal lobes

Question 7

What’s the function of emotion?

Answer 7

Survival responses

Autonomic activity (increase HR) alerts you to problem before it is consciously registered

Question 8

What causes aggression?

Answer 8

May be genetic component
- monozygotic twins resemble each other more than dizygotic twin in bad behaviour
- smoking during pregnancy

• higher levels of testosterone

Question 9

Serotonin and aggression?

Answer 9

Low serotonin = higher aggression

Monkeys with lowest serotonin were more aggressive