emotional well-being Flashcards
1
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how do most psychologists define emotions
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- classes of subjective feelings
- mental states that are accompanied by physiological reactions
2
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what is affect
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emotional process (moods, subjective feelings)
3
Q
t or f: wellbeing is just a positive mood
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false, life satisfaction, mental and physical health, connections, not just absence of disease
4
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what is emotional fluctuation
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- intensity of emotions changes overtime
- more frequent fluctuations = worse mental well-being
5
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emotional coherence
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- when your emotional response converge or overlap (thoughts, behaviour, physiology)
- important for your emotions to match the context
6
Q
affective neuroscience
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- how brain create emotions response
7
Q
focal brain stimulation
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- using electrodes (non-invasive) to stim areas of brain
- measure emotional response to stim
8
Q
networks of activation
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regoins involved in emotional response scattered throughout brain, not in one location
9
Q
desire
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- stim of hypothalamus
- apetite for rewards
- activated dopamine
10
Q
liking
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- area of the nucleus accumbens
- processing and analyzing
11
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pleasure
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- activated by pleasurable stimuli (ex smells, hot ppl)
- activation of orbitofrontal cortex
12
Q
fear? what are the two pathways of fear response
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- amygdala
- fast response: prepare body for immediate action
- slow response: analyze emotion
13
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anger
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- close to fear
- medial amygdala
- lack of reward provokes anger
14
Q
what neurotransmitters provoke anger
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- substance P
- testosterone
- vasopressin
- opiods and high doses of anti-psychotics inhibit
15
Q
what chemical is released in women after birth
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Oxytocin
16
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where does attachment begin
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infant crying and caregiver has increased oxytosin
17
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how do neuroscientists study emotions
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- fMRI
- ERP (using EEGs)
- focal brain stimulation
