Psychology 2220A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 17: Medial Geniculate Nucleus, Autonomic Nervous System, Somatic Nervous System

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2220A/B
• Professor: Shelley Cross- Mellor

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Early landmarks in biopsychological investigation of emotion (cid:120) case study: damage to gage"s brain affected medial prefrontal lobes, which are involved in planning and emotion. Emotional specificity of the autonomic nervous system (cid:120) the james lange theory says that different emotional stimuli induce different patterns of anc activity and that these different patterns produce different emotional experiences (cid:120) Emotions and facial expression (cid:120) erman and colleagues compiled an atlas of the facial expression. Primary facial expressions: primary: surprise, anger, sadness, disgust, fear and happiness (cid:120) erman et al further concluded that all other facial expressions of genuine emotion are composed of predictable mixtures of these six primaries. Distributing prohibited | downloaded by school work (rsoud96@gmail. com) lomoarcpsd. Fear conditioning is the establishment of fear in response to a previously neutral stimulus (the conditional stimulus) by presenting it, usually several times, before the delivery of an aversive stimulus (the unconditional stimulus)