PSY4111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 25: Biofeedback, Jaak Panksepp, Medical Optical Imaging

• School: Monash University
• Department: Health Sciences - Psychology
• Course: PSY4111
• Professor: All

Document Summary

Emotion; o physiological arousal, expressions, experience o james-lange, cannon-bard, and two factor theory o classifying emotions o panksepp"s theory o sociocultural factors. Lazarus appraisals determine feelings (like in stress), our interpretation of a given situation will determine the emotions we feel. Direct pathway is fast but not detailed. Sensory thalamus sensory cortex amygdala though can go from thalamus directly to. Facial feedback hypothesis; o facial expression can influence emotions o supports the james- La(cid:374)ge theory of e(cid:373)otio(cid:374)s (cid:449)ith the (cid:271)ody"s respo(cid:374)se affe(cid:272)ti(cid:374)g our e(cid:373)otio(cid:374)s: supports primacy of emotion (zajonc) facial expressions effect emotion even when people are unaware they are making an emotion expression. Emotions motivate behaviour instrumental behaviours, facial and bodily expressions. There are families of emotion eg; anger is a linguistic exemplar of irritation, rage and fury. Anger high approach, teeth bared to bite, back off! Sadness reduced approach motivation, conserves energy, sympathy/social support. Disgust avoidance motivation, expels bad food or whatever, avoids nasty things.