Emotion 4.8a Flashcards
Basic emotions
- Fear, anger, disgust, happiness, sadness, (surprise)
- They are innate and hard-wired
- Complex emotions are a blend of many aspects of emotions
Concept of emotion
Categories of feelings caused by things in the environment that are important to us
Autonomic Nervous System
Division of the pns that controls the glands and muscles of the internal organs; basic emotions are associated with distinct patterns of ans activity
Sympathetic Nervous System
The part of the ans that arouses the body to deal with perceived threats
Parasympathetic Nervous System
The part of the ans that calms the body
Insula
Becomes active with negative social emotions (lusting after someone’s partner, pridefulness, disgust)
Amygdala
Evaluate the significance of stimuli and generate emotional responses
Psychic blindness
Damage to the amygdala causes the inability to recognize fear in facial expressions and voice
Frontal lobes
Influence people’s conscious emotional feelings and ability to act in planned ways based on feelings
How you experience fear
Thalamus -> low road -> high road
Low road
Crude, archetypal information travels rapidly to the amygdala
High road
More detailed information travels to the visual cortex, where the stimulus is interpreted
Lie detection
The polygraph doesn’t really detect lies; nonverbal cues, especially microexpressions, are associated with deception, but no single nonverbal cue indicates that someone is lying
