Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Heart Rate, Facial Nerve Paralysis, Amygdala

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

Document Summary

Inside out rating for scientific accuracy: 3. 5/5. Antagonistic nature of sns and psns have a rebound effect; psns goes up and sns goes down, the brain interprets this rebound change as a psns response. Following the rebound, you may experience a lack of bladder control, feeling sick, etc. Note: ras vs. sns: diffuse activation systems, adrenergic; use norepinephrine as the transport, antagonists, ras activates the brain, sns activates the body. Subjects asked to tense and relax muscles. Self reported happiness is higher in the smile group. Self reported anger is higher in the frown group. Updated james-lange theory: arousal in the middle of the event: emotion provoking event, yielding the perception of danger, next, the body becomes aroused (sns kicks in, afterwards, we have a perception of emotion (ie fear) Freud: expression reduces experience; if you express your emotional response, you defeat it in terms of getting it out of your system.