Emotions Flashcards

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What are the 6 basic emotions

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Anger 
Fear
Happiness
Surprise 
Disgust 
Sadness
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Define emotion

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Increase or decrease in physiological activity that is accompanied by feelings that are characteristic of the emotion

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What are the 3 components of an emotional response

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  • cognitive
  • affect
  • behavioural
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What’s the James Lange theory

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Emotions as a result of the physiological arousal that comes before it

Eg- we feel sorry because we cry

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What’s the cognitive theory to emotion

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Arousal only contributes to the emotions intensity

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How does facial feedback effect emotion

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Paul elkman

Posed expressions could produce the intended emotion and a distinct pattern of physiological arousal

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Examples of facial expressions and response

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  • stimulus is more painful when making a sad face
  • cartoons are more amusing during induced smiling
  • we mimic others emotional expressions (contributes to our emotional empathy)
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What happens when you inactivate the medial frontal cortex

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Lose the ability to identify angry expressions

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What happens when you damage the insular cortex

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You don’t experience disgust or recognise events that trigger disgust

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Which hemisphere is more responsive to emotional stimuli

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The right

  • recognition and identification of facial expression related to sensomatory cortex in the right hemisphere
  • crying/ laughter activates right amygdala
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What does the amygdala do

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Primary area in emotion and fear analysis

Causes deficits in feeling fear/ knowledge of fear

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What are the two paths to emotion

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Low road (amygdala)

  • faster reaction
  • more automatic

High road (prefrontal cortex)

  • slower
  • more conscious
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13
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What can frontal lesions do?

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Disrupt emotional processing

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14
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What happens with damage to the VMPFC

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Impaired decision making in life

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15
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How does stress affect the brain

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Destroys neurons in the hippocampus

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16
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What happens when you have ptsd

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  • smaller than average hippocampus

- short allele of 5HT transporter gene increases susceptibility