Emotions and Mood

Question 1

What is emotion

Answer 1

A mind and body’s integrated response to a stimulus

Physiological arousal, expressive behaviours and conscious experience

Question 2

Arousal

Answer 2

Increase reactivity or wakefulness to prime us for an event

Question 3

Limbic System

Answer 3

Hypothalamus, thalamus, amygdala and hippocampus

Question 4

**Perceptual set

Answer 4

**The psychological factors that determine how you perceive your environment
Context, culture, expectations, mood and motivation

Question 5

Izzard’s 10 Basic Emotions

Answer 5

Joy, contempt, surprise, shame, sadness, fear, anger, guilt, disgust, excitement

Question 6

Hemispheric lateralisation

Answer 6

Broadly speaking:
Positive emotions on left side of brain
Negative emotions on right side of brain

Question 7

Mood

Answer 7

Long term emotional states rather than discreet, fleeting feelings

Question 8

Mood disorder

Answer 8

Longer term extremes of emotional state and challenges in regulating mood

Question 9

Mania

Answer 9

Mood is elevated out of keeping with patient’s circumstances
Increased energy, overactivity, pressure of speech, decreased need for sleep, overconfidence, loss of normal social inhibitions

Question 10

Hypomania

Answer 10

Persistent mild elevation of mood not the the extent that they lead to sever disruption of work or result in social rejection