Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 28: Rein, Frontal Lobe, Facial Nerve Paralysis

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Dr.Mike

Document Summary

If you"re highly stressed, sns up for a long time, psns down for a long time. When stress is eliminated, psns goes up by a lot, could lead to bowel movements, you get sick. Located in the brain stem, runs from medulla up to thalamus. Whatever sensory information comes in there is a collateral shoot that goes to the reticular formation which tells the cortex to wake up and process info. More active the cortex gets, connected to ras and fires it up as well. If you smile you"re going to feel happier, expressing emotion makes it stronger. Cathartic thing - if you feel something and then show it, you reduce the feeling. Much more support for darwin"s opinion than freud"s. When you show an emotion on your face, feedback from those facial muscles informs you of the emotion. Emotion provoking event --> perception of that (i. e. dangerous) --> perception of emotion (i. e.