Emotion & Behavior (KA) Flashcards
Limbic system mnemonic
Hippo wearing a HAT
- Hypothalamus, hippocampus, amygdala, thalamus
What sense bypasses thalamus?
Olfactory
Kluver-Bucy Syndrome
Bilateral destruction of amygdala => put things in mouth, hypersexuality, disinhibited behavior
Positive and negative emotions are on which sides of brain?
Positive emotions = left side
Negative = right side
James-Lange
Experience emotion b/c perception of physiological responses
- Sad b/c you cry
Schachter-Singer
Identify reason for situation => feel emotion
- Interpret arousal => aggressive emotion
Lazarus theory
LABEL situation => emotion and physiological response
Yerkes-Dodson Law
Bell curve that shows people perform best when moderately aroused
Appraisal theory of stress
- Primary and secondary appraisal
Stress arises from interpretation of events
- Primary = assess stress in situation => if negative, secondary
- Secondary = appraisal of harm, threat, how to overcome
4 categories of stressors
Significant life changes
Catastrophic events
Daily hassles
Ambient stressors
General adaptation syndrome
Alarm
Resistance
Exhaustion
Physical effects of stress
Cardiovascular
Metabolism (increased glucose production)
Reproductive (impotence)
Immune (inflammation)
Areas of brain w/ most glucocorticoid receptors
Hippocampus and frontal cortex
Clonus
Rhytmic contractions of antagonistic muscle
Glutamate = _____, GABA and glycine = ______
Excitatory; inhibitory
What sends histamine?
Hypothalamus
What releases norepi?
Locus ceruleus in pons
What releases serotonin?
Raphe nuclei in medulla
What releases DA?
Ventral tegmental area (VTA) and substantia nigra
Kainic acid and oxidopamine
Neurochemical lesion
Cortical cooling
Cool neurons until they stop firing
Phenylketonia
Mutation => missing F AA in liver => brain problems
3 types of innate behavioral traits
Reflexes
Orientation
Fixed-action pattern (performed w/o interruption)
Maslow pyramid of needs
Physiological Safety Love Self-Esteem Self-Actualization
3 components of attitude
Affective (emotional)
Behavioral
Cognitive
Principle of aggregation
People will be honest when patterns of behavior are observed vs. single one
Attribution
Inferring causes of events/behaviors
