Week3 Flashcards
behavioral activation system (BAS)
- Activity of the left hemisphere, especially its
frontal and temporal lobes - tendency to approach
- happiness or anger
- happier extraverted
behavioral inhibition system (BIS)
- right frontal and temporal lobes
- tendency to avoid
- socially withdrawn, cautious, prone to unpleasant emotions
cortisol
+anxiety
-anger
Emotions
- Feelings -affective appraisal
i feel afraid - Cognition- cognitive appraisal
i should not be doing this - Actions- response
heart rate increases
limbic system
- basal ganglia
- thalamus
- hippocampus
- amygdala
- hypothalamus
- cingulate gyrus
James- Lange theory
stimulus- >autoarousal- > conscious feeling
criticism-> physiological events do not guarantee emotion and sometimes same physiological event causes different emotions
Canon - Bard theory
stimulus - subcortical activity - independently conscois feeling and arousal
Theory of constructed emotion
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moral decisions
pfc
cingulate gyrus
low MAO activity
more agrression in children with maltreatment
Amygdala
responsible for detecting emotional information
directing it to other areas of brain to pay attention
top-down control of amygdala
pfc inhibits amygdala activity.
PTSD
- an anxiety disorder
- smaller hippocampus makes you more vulnerable for PTSD
Panic Disorder
- Increased orexin
- decreased GABA
Benzodiazepines
(Valium, Xanax)
- Anti anxiety drugs
- on Amygdala,hypothalamus,midbrain
- more GABA activity.