PSY 1102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Frontal Lobe, Sympathetic Nervous System, Autonomic Nervous System

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 1102
• Professor: Ersin Asliturk

Document Summary

Conscious experience includes thoughts and feelings. Zajonc, ledoux, lazarus: emotions without awareness/cognition: o(cid:373)e e(cid:373)otio(cid:374)al rea(cid:272)tio(cid:374)s, espe(cid:272)iall(cid:455) fears, likes, a(cid:374)d dislikes, de(cid:448)elop i(cid:374) a (cid:862)lo(cid:449) road(cid:863) through the brain, skipping conscious thought. In one study people showed an amygdala response to certain images without being aware of the image or their reaction. Embodied emotion: the role of the autonomic nervous system. The physiological arousal felt during various emotions orchestrated by the sympathetic nervous system, which triggers activity and changes in various organs. Large overlap in the patterns of brain activity across emotions. Small differences: i. e. fear triggers more amygdala activity than anger. People read a great deal of emotional content in the eyes and the faces. Introverts are better at detecting emotions; extroverts have emotions that are easier to read. We are primed to quickly detect negative emotions and even negative emotion words. Those who have been abused are biased toward seeing fearful faces as angry.