CAS PS 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Fast Path, Homeostasis, Prefrontal Cortex

• School: Boston University
• Department: Psychological & Brain Sciences
• Course: CAS PS 101
• Professor: Robert Reinhart

Document Summary

Typically interrupt whatever is happening, or trigger changes in thought and behavior. Mood: a diffuse, longer-lasting state of mind or feeling. Rather than interrupting what is happening, they in uence thought and behavior. Primary emotions: emotions that are evolutionarily adaptive, shared across cultures, and associated with speci c physical states. They include anger, fear, disgust, surprise, happiness & sadness. Other emotions are proposed to be blends of these primary emotions. They include remorse, guilt, submission, and anticipation, among many others . Circumplex map: one proposed mapping of emotions, w/ 2 dimensions of affect valence & Valence: how positive or negative an emotion is. Can be thought of as a qualitative metric". Activation (arousal): physiological activation (increased brain activity) or increased autonomic responses (increased heart rate, sweating, or muscle tension). Some models of emotion: james-lange theory proposes that we perceive speci c patterns of bodily responses, and as a result of that perception, we feel emotion.