PSYC 211 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Nucleus Accumbens, Endocrine System, Tral

• School: McGill University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 211
• Professor: Yogita Chudasama

Document Summary

Physiological (ex: sweating, changes in heart rate or blood pressure, eegs, etc. ) Particular emotional responses such as human expressions tend to accompany the same emotional state across many species. Some particular emotions tend to accompany the same members of the species. Opposite messages are signaled by opposite movements and postures. Theories of emotion: perception of the emotion-eliciting event (e. g. see a bear), subjective feelings of emotion (e. g. fear), behavioral and adaptive physiological responses (e. g. trembling, sweating and running away). Therefore, the emotional feelings cause the emotional response. The behavioral and physiological changes feed back to the brain, and when this happens, we feel our emotion. Studied paraplegics who had spinal cord surgery at different levels. Patients were asked about their emotional feelings. Those with highest transections (i. e. surgery high up the spinal cord) showed less intense emotional feelings. Other subjects showed angry behavior (the emotional response) without feeling angry.