PSY 001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Facial Feedback Hypothesis, Autonomic Nervous System, Botulinum Toxin

• School: College of The Sequoias
• Department: Psychology (PSY)
• Course: PSY 001
• Professor: Nikkel

Document Summary

James lange theory of emotion: idea that perception of bodily changes provides the feeling aspect of emotion. You don"t run away because you feel fear, you feel fear because you are running away. Pure autonomic failure: condition in which autonomic nervous system stops regulating the organ. Reported weaker than usual emotional feelings while. Facial expressions can help to communicate emotions. Duchenne smile: a voluntary smile doesn"t use the muscles around the eyes, a real smile does. A facial expression can be described as a combination of independent components. Sad people are more realistic and are able to thoroughly look through details for a decision. Call our attention to important things and helps us realize priorities. The "trolley" experiment/ pushing someone off a bridge. When faced with a moral decision, we decide based off of emotion. Brain damage to prefrontal cortex could cause lack of/ no emotion. Can"t maintain normal friendships, keep a job, invent money intelligently.