Final Flashcards
Three components to be considered an emotion…
Set of physiological changes, facial expression, internal, subjective experience
Part of brain responsible for assessing threat
Amygdala
True or false - expressions are the same regardless of cultural background
True
6 primary emotions
Surprise, fear, anger, happiness, disgust, sadness
Law describing optimal level of arousal/best performance
Yerkes-Dodson law
Culture specific rules that affect, how, when, and why facial expressions of emotion are displayed
Display rules
What must be observed to be considered a disorder?
Statistically infrequent, maladaptive, personally distressing, irrational, involuntary
Multiple causations of mental disorders
Predisposing, precipitating, perpetual
Cycle of manic and depressive episodes
Bipolar disorder
Blocks reuptake of serotonin (serotonin agonist)
SSRIs
Rates increase in adulthood, much greater in females
Depression
Treatment with lithium
Bipolar affective disorder
Intense, unrealistic fears that are not usually fears in general population
Phobias
Continuous state of anxiety marked by feelings of worry and dread
Generalized anxiety disorder
Sympathetic nervous system activation, recurring panic attacks
Panic disorder
Symptoms greater than 6 months, reliving trauma, increased physiological arousal
PTSD
Repetitive, persistent thoughts
Obsessions
Repetitive, ritualized behaviors
Compulsions
Disorder characterized by antisocial behavior such as lying, stealing, manipulating. others, sometimes violence
Antisocial personality disorder
People with ___ were slow to develop classically conditioned responses to anger, pain, or shock
APD
Three types of symptoms for schizophrenia
Positive, negative, disorganized
Which neurotransmitter affected by schizophrenia
Excess dopamine
Part of brain involved in motivation to approach others
Left prefrontal cortex
Involved in negative emotions
Right prefrontal cortex
What hormones are released during an intense emotion?
Epinephrine, norepinephrine
Hypothesis that we experience emotions in part as a result of the positions of our facial muscles
Facial feedback
How emotions regulate our behavior
Action tendencies
Stimulus - emotion - arousal - interpret & evaluate
Common-sense view
Stimulus - arousal - interpret & evaluate - emotion
James-Lange theory
Stimulus simultaneously causes emotion and arousal
Cannon-Bard theory
Stimulus - arousal - emotion AND stimulus - interpret & evaluate - emotion
Schachter-Singer theory
Current view of emotions
Stimulus causes emotion and arousal OR stimulus causes interpretation which causes emotion and arousal
