Feb 27 Emotional Regulation & Mood Disorders

Question 1

What is an emotion?

Answer 1

feeling that is different form a normal person’s baseline state; biological function of the NS

Question 2

What are the 3 central attributes of emotion?

Answer 2

Physiological arousal, Affective (feeling) response, Behavioral response

Question 3

What is the James Lange Theory?

Answer 3

Physiological changes occur in response to an event;

“Stimulus->Response-> Emotion”

Question 4

What is the Cannon Bard Theory?

Answer 4

An event activates the thalamus, which stimulates cerebral cortex to produce emotion AND stimulate a physiological response

Question 5

What is Schachter’s Cognitive Model?

Answer 5

Emotional reaction is caused by attribution of the environment the physiological arousal;

“Stimulus->Arousal-> Attribution-> Emotion”

Question 6

What is the Papez circuit?

Answer 6

Emotional expression and experience are mediated in this forebrain structure

Question 7

What is the Primary emotions (Antonio Damasio)?

Answer 7

Innate, built-in, hardwired emotions; processed by LIMBIC SYSTEM (AMYGDALA).

Question 8

What is Secondary emotions (Antonio Damasio)?

Answer 8

The experience of an emotion (feeling & learning); processed not only in limbic system, but in prefrontal areas and S1 cortices

Question 9

Neural system for fear?

Answer 9

Sensory input-> thalamus;
thalamus-> amygdala;
&
thalamus-> neocortex (both) -> hippocampus & -> amygdala

Question 10

Klüver-Bucy Syndrome?

Answer 10

First discovered in monkeys with bilateral temporal lobe damage that would lose amygdala;
loss of fear b/c of deficits of amygdala

Question 11

What is Major depression?

Answer 11

A type of depressive disorder characterized by a depressed mood of at least two weeks in duration