PSYC100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Botulinum Toxin, Display Rules, Amygdala
6 Jan 2018
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Emotion: an immediate, specific negative or positive response to environmental events or internal thoughts: typically interrupt whatever is happening, trigger changes in thought and behavior, 3 components: Feeling that is based on cognitive appraisal of the situation and interpretation of bodily states. Primary emotions: emotions that are innate, evolutionary adaptive and universal (shared across cultures); example: anger, fear, sadness, disgust, happiness, surprise, contempt. Secondary emotions: blends of primary emotions; example: remorse, guilt, submission, shame, love, bitterness, jealousy. Emotions have a valence (+ or -) and a level of activation (arousal, from low to high) The insula receives and integrates somatosensory signals, helping us experience emotion. The amygdala processes emotional significance of stimuli and generates immediate reactions; also associated with emotional learning, memory of emotional events and interpretation of facial expressions of emotion. James-lange theory of emotion: people perceive specific patterns of bodily responses and as a result of that perception they feel emotion bear > human > fear.
