lecture 7 Flashcards
James lange theory is not
that emotions are evoked by bodily feedback indirectly
James lange they suggests that sensory experiences give rise to
emotion directly, without intervening processes
assumption people without bodily sensation should
not experience emotion
loss of sensation
associated with spinal cord injury
canon bard theory
experiential and bodily responses arise simultaneously - do not cause each other
common sense theory example
dog- fear-arousal -response
James lange theory example
dog- arousal/repsonse - fear
canon bard theory example
dog stimulus - arousal + fear
emotional experiences can be
induced by feedback from the body
cannon proposed
no emotional experience without thalamus
papez circuit
neural circuit for the control of emotional expression
complete removal of temporal lobes =
loss of fear an emotional reactivity
Paul Maclean
added the whole limbic system - amygdalae - clusters of small nuclei that form lumps on the end of the caudate nuclei
emotional Brain
limbic stem components - responsible for generating emotional experiences and expression