Emotions And Neuroscience Flashcards
What is a person?
A person is body (physical), salt (mind, will, emotion) and spirit and in relationship with others
How does understanding emotion in neuroscience benefit us?
It helps us to understand Ourselves People in our world People we come alongside Potential for development
Science gives significant insights to help us do this
How does understanding emotion and neuroscience help someone professionally?
Being a people helper requires art and science
-It’s the Education and training of best practice and scientifically proven methods and support helps you be the best you can in these situations
Leads to development
- Resilient healthy and well
- Possibility of choice o’clock shape, receipt, repair (implies change)
- More effective and safe in supporting others
Helps us understand cognitive factors, personality, clinical, social, biological/neuroscience
What do we look at in terms of cognitive factors?
How do emotions influence people thought processes…
What do we look at in terms of personality?
How and why do people differ in their emotions…
What do we look at in terms of clinical?
How can we help people control harmful or dysfunctional emotions…
What do we look at in terms of social?
How do our motions impact relationships…
What do we look at in terms of biological/ neuroscience?
What biological mechanisms underlying emotional processes
What is science?
It is a systematic study of the structure and behaviour of the physical and natural world through observation and experiment
What is neuroscience?
Neuroscience is the scientific study of the nervous system – Central and peripheral nervous system; biological basis of learning, memory, behaviour, perception, emotion and consciousness
What is the basis of science and neuroscience?
A curiosity to explore and to learn about the natural world
What is meant by the power of observation?
Using one or more of the human senses to gather information by quantitative and qualitative observation
What is quantitative observation?
And observation dealing with numbers or amounts
Measurement
Reliability and validity
What is qualitative observation?
Deals with descriptions that cannot be expressed in numbers
Things like
- Inferring
- Predicting
- Classifying
- Evaluating
Why are psychology and neuroscience related to helping professions and why are they important?
Help understand how motions of constructive within the brain in relation to the environment relationships and culture
Help understand the influence and impact the three factors have on emotion
In varied contemporary models of emotion what is the locationist view?
Endorsed by early theorists
Specific areas of systems in the brain are responsible for generating specific emotions
Neural underpinnings of emotions are thought to be similar across species (species to species selection pressures not with standing)
Brainstem is considered central to emotions by some theorists but difficult to study in humans
In varied contemporary models of emotion what is the constructionist view?
Endorsed by psychological constructionist
Notable failure to pinpoint locations of emotions in brain
Focus on how mental processes are distributed throughout the brain not localised
Building blocks of emotion also underlie other cognitive processes
What is the function of emotions?
Help sets priority
have meaning
calls us to action
Help our survival
Alert us to threats
The brain sway of keeping us connected
Brain is built to see what someone else is feeling and what action they could likely take
How do emotions hinder someone?
When emotions are out of control, we can feel helpless
They can escalate quickly
The human fear system acts as a guardian that alerts your body to various threats
Define emotion
Episodic
Relatively short term
Biologically based patterns of perception, experience, Physiology, Action and communication
occurs in response to specific physical and social challenges and opportunities
A pattern of intent to change in physiological arousal behaviour cognitive processes and environmental influences
Described in subjective terms
How is emotion inferred?
Emotion is inferred through a complex sequence of reactions to stimulus including
Cognitive evaluations Subjective changes Autonomic and neural arousal Impulses to action Behaviour designed to have an affect on its stimulus
What are the four components of emotion?
Feeling
Behaviour
Physiological changes
Cognitive appraisal
(These are all areas connected to the brain, nervous system and other biological factors)
When discussing emotions describe the cognitive component
Mental processing That is an evaluation and interpretation of events and objects, taking life experience and cultural into account
Research on effective forecasting shows people are not accurate are predicting intensity and duration of emotional reactions to events
Physiological components of emotions
Experiences in the body lent it to the arousal of the nervous system especially autonomic arousal
The amygdala lies at the core of a complex set of neural circuits that processes emotion
Involves sympathetic (call to action under threat) and parasympathetic systems (when we are not aroused) which affect eyes, mouth, skin, palms, lungs, heart, blood, adrenalglands and digestion
Describe the behavioural component of emotions
Motivation emotive responses to the invoked emotion can include Actions Body language Facial expressions Vocal expressions
According to facial feedback hypothesis facial muscles send signals to the brain that aid in the recognition of emotions
