PSYCH 2210 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Neural Oscillation, Sympathetic Nervous System, Autonomic Nervous System
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Exam 2: intracranial recordings: record electrical activity, eeg: electroencephalograph. Measures summed up potentials from: erp: measured brain response that is the direct result of a specific sensory, cognitive, millions of neurons. or motor event. Cons: affected by skull, temporal resolution can be distorted. Pros: detect deep dipoles, easily available, cheap: advantages and disadvantages of erp/eeg vs intracranial, meg: recording changes in magnetic fields given off by active neurons. Pros: not affected by skull, not distorted temp res, good spacial res. 17% of patients develop impulsivity, pathological gambling, hyper sexuality, in addition to motor pathways excessive shopping cultures, present at birth primary emotions: six basic universal emotional expressions, seen in all. Plutchik: hypothesizes 8 core emotions including embarrassment and contempt parasympathetic: rest and digest sympathetic: fight or flight than basic emotions (looking away to signify embarrassment) people can be unaware of their beliefs, results can be manipulated. Expressions linked to specific muscles: functions of emotions, theories of emotion.
