Emotion Flashcards
Affect
Feelings that change moment to moment
Mood
Average predominant feeling over time
Primary Emotions
Built in hardwired emotions
Size, type of movement, sounds
Secondary emotions
Experience or feeling of emotions. Involves learning
Death of loved one
Components of emotions
1) context
2) physiological
3) psychological
4) behavioral
James-Lang theory of emotion
Physiological changes determine experience of emotion
“I run therefore I am afraid”
Cannon-Bard theory of emotion
Emotional expression and physiological experience take place simultaneously via thalamic stimulation
Schachter-Singer theory of emotion
Cognitive appraisal of our general arousal allows identification of subjective feelings
Universal Facial Expressions
Anger Sadness Happiness Fear Disgust Surprise Contempt Embarrassment
Facial Feedback Hypothesis
Sensory feedback from facial expressions can affect our mood
Papez Circuit (Limbic system)
Emotion is controlled by limbic system
Amygdala: attaches emotion to stimuli
Cingulate gyrus: pleasure sadness, psychological sense of pain
Hypothalamus: receive input from hippocampus and cortex
Happiness and Pleasure
Lateralized in cortex and amygdala
Left frontal cortex: happier outgoing fun loving
Right frontal cortex: socially withdrawn less satisfied with life negative emotions
Mesocorticolimbic Dopamine Pathway
1) Medial Forebrain Bundle: axons of VTA dopamine neurons
2) Nucleus Accumbens: drugs, sex, gambling
3) septum: self stimulation
4) prefrontal cortex: impulsivity, decision making regarding reward seeking
Anger and Aggression
Eight types
1) fear induced
2) instrumental
3) inter male
4) irritable
5) maternal
6) predatory
7) sex related
8) territorial
Hormonal influence in aggression
Testosterone and low levels of serotonin
