Emotions

Question 1

Pages for this section

Answer 1

458-486

Question 2

What is a major struggle with studying emotions?

Answer 2

Defining it, how to manipulate them, how to observe/quantify them

Question 3

Define the James-Lange theory of emotion

Answer 3

Perception of stimulus => Physiological change => perception of physiological change => emotion

Question 4

Define mirror neurons

Answer 4

when seeing a stimulous, these neurons will activate those neurons responsible for that emotion

Question 5

what does arousal give fuel to?

Answer 5

emotion

Question 6

Define spillover effect

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occurs when arousal and emotion from one eevent spills over into other emotions during other events

Question 7

What is physiological arousal provided by?

Answer 7

autonomic nervous system

Question 8

what part of the brain is activated by fearful or angry faces?

Answer 8

The amygdala

Question 9

what is the cingulate cortex

Answer 9

really important for emotions, inhibition of inappropriate behaviour

Question 10

what is the nucleus accumbens rich in (chemical)

Answer 10

dopamine

Question 11

define fear

Answer 11

an adaptive emotion - prepares us to fight or flee

Question 12

how do we learn fear

Answer 12

conditioning

Question 13

what can effect temperament

Answer 13

genes

Question 14

what emotions are the amygdale partivularly responsible for?

Answer 14

fear and anger

Question 15

what sense goes directly to the amygdala

Answer 15

ofaction, sense of smell

Question 16

what is catharsis?

Answer 16

emotional release

Question 17

Define adatation-level hypothesis:

Answer 17

we adapt to our present level based on past experience.