PSY B110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Microexpression, Walter Bradford Cannon, Autonomic Nervous System
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Able to understand and manage your own emotional experiences. Perceive, comprehend, and respond appropriately to the emotional responses of others. Charles darwin one of the first to study emotions. Emotions have specific facial expressions, body movements and postures in both animals and humans. Emotions reflect evolutionary adaptations to the problems of survival and reproduction. Basic emotions: fear, surprise, anger, disgust, happiness, sadness. Males and females do not differ in their experiences of emotion, but they do differ in how they express emotions. Sympathetic nervous system response: fight or flight. Amygdala: structure in the limbic system involved with the memory and responses to emotions such as fear. Loss of ability to be conditioned to fear (shown in rats) Loss of ability to distinguish between friendly and threatening faces ( shown in humans) Triggers arousal of the sympathetic nervous system. Triggers the pituitary gland to release stress hormones.
