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Emotional Behaviours Flashcards

1
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Emotion is defined as having three elements

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cognition, action (physiological), feeling

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2
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Emotional situations arouse which nervous system

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Autonomic nervous system

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3
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Common-sense view of emotion

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Snake - fear - running away, increased heart rate

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James-Lange view of emotion

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Snake - running away, increased heart rate - fear / snake - appraisal - running away, increased HR - fear

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5
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James-Lange predictions

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Those with weak physical response should feel less emotion, increasing one’s autonomic or motor response should enhance emotion

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Those with “pure autonomic failure” can still recognize emotion

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but do not feel it as strongly

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7
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You may need to be able to move the muscles in your face in order to experience empathy - true/false

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True

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How can we increase emotion, according to James-Lange

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Drugs that increase arousal (eg. caffeine), mimicking facial expressions (eg. pen in teeth vs. lips)

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Forebrain areas surrounding the thalamus, traditionally regarded as critical for emotion

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Limbic system

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10
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Other areas involved in emotion

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Many areas of cerebral cortex, especially the frontal and temporal lobes

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11
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Disgust

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Insular cortex - also primary taste cortex

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12
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Left Hemisphere (behaviour)

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Behavioural activation system (approach), marked by low to moderate arousal, happiness & anger

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Left hemisphere asymmetry (personality)

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Happier, more outgoing, friendlier

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Right hemisphere (behaviour)

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Behavioural inhibition system (avoidance), increased arousal, fear & disgust

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Right hemisphere asymmetry (personality)

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socially withdrawn, less satisfied with life, prone to unpleasant emotions

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16
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Functions of emotion

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Adaptive responses, decision making, moral decision making

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17
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Attack behaviours

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Corticomedial area of amygdala. First attack response increases likelihood of another

18
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Agressive behaviours - environmental factors

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exposure to lead, witness/victim of violence in childhood, violent neighborhood

19
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Twin studies in aggressive behaviours

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monozygotic > dizygotic

20
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Low MAOa + childhood maltreatment

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high antisocial behaviour

21
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High MAOa + childhood maltreatment

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lower antisocial behaviour

22
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High testosterone

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higher rates of violent behaviour

23
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Triple imbalance hypothesis

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Cortisol, serotonin, testosterone. High rates of violence when cortisol is low and testosterone is high. Serotonin inhibits violent impulses.

24
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Testosterone might inhibit the ability to recognize angry behaviour - true/false

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true. May increase response of amygdala, and decrease ability of cerebral cortex to identify and regulate.

25
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Turnover

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the amount of neurotransmitter that is released and resynthesized by neurons

26
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low serotonin turnover =

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high aggressive behaviour

27
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low levels of 5-HIAA indicate

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low serotonin levels

28
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serotonin levels are influenced by

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diet, genetics, tryptophan hydroxylase

29
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Amygdala is crucial in

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regulating fear

30
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The startle reflex is

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very fast, mediated by medulla and pons, unlearned

31
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fear signals enhance startle, pleasant decrease - true/false

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true

32
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Amygdala to hypothalamus

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automatic reaction

33
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Amygdala to prefrontal cortex

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approach/avoid

34
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Amygdala damage results in

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startle response not enhanced by fear inducing stimuli

35
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Damage to amydala does not remove all emotion - true/false

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true

36
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Urbache-Wiethe disease

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buildup of calcium in the amygdala - results in fearlessness and difficulty processing emotion on faces

37
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fMRI of amygdala shows

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activity is strongest when processing ambiguous emotional facial expressions

38
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Bed nuclius of the stria terminalis

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regulates long term, generalized emotional arousal

39
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Panic disorder

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women > men, possible genetic component (15% joint laxity), abnormalities in the hypothalamus, decreased GABA increased orexin

40
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Drugs intended to control anxiety

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alter activity at amygdala synapses. Excitatory NT CCK and orexin, inhib NT GABA.

41
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Anxiolytic drugs

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target GABA

42
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Benzodiazepines are most commonly used anxiolytic drugs

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bind to GABA

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