Emotion Flashcards
Definiton of emotion
A brief complex state of feelings that arise in response to a specific cause to achieve a particular goal
What is the Jame-Lange theory?
Emotion occur by:
Stimulus –> Perception –> Physicological Reaction –> Feeling of emotion
What contradicts the James-Lange theory?
- Phsyciological changes do not guarantee emotion
- Physiological changes may not proceed emotion
- High arousal is linked to different emotions
- Arosual not needed for emotion
What is the Cannon-Bard theory?
Views emotional experience and emotional expression as parallel processes that have no direct casual relation
What pathways did Papez suggest provided the connections for cortical of emotional expression?
LImbic system
What does Bilaterial lesion of amygdala in human result in?
- No conditioned response (still able to verbally learn the association)
- Fail to recongise facial expression of fear (SP case)
- Fail to experience fear (SM case)
What is Skin conductance response (SCR)?
Chnages in electrical conductivitiy on a person’s skin, caused by certain stimuli
What did Ivan Pavlov (1849 - 1936) observe in dogs?
Dogs learned to expect food when stimuli that predicted delivery of the food were presented - Pavlovian/classical conditioning
What is unconditioned stimulus?
Conditioning is not requried to produce a response
What is the conditioned stimulus?
A stimulus that had been conditioned to produce a conditioned response
What is fear conditioning?
Esablishment of fear in repsonse to a previously netural stimulus
What is the central nucleus important for?
Defensive behaviour
What is the Lacteral nucleus important for?
Acquistion, storage and expression of conditioned fear
What is the importance of Basolateral nucleus?
Freezing response
What does the Anterior CIngulate Cortex do?
- Recieve inputs relating to pain
- Regulate feelings of pain via output connections to the periaqueductal gray
