PSY 430 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Facial Nerve Paralysis, Prefrontal Cortex, Temporal Lobe
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D: functions of emotions in general are the following: communicate with others, in uence others, organize and motivate action, contain adaptive values and the consequences to our decisions have emotional consequences. I: beginning understanding of the functions of emotion which mainly communicate and interconnect with other emotions or organs. E: reading emotions from facial expressions is a form of emotional communication. D: contemplating moral decisions activates the prefrontal cortex, cingulate gyrus, and the amygdala. Damages to these areas results in impaired decision making of all kinds and leads to impulse decision making without pause for consideration of consequences. I: 3 structures within the brain are associated with contemplating moral decisions like the prefrontal cortex, amygdala, and the cingulate gyrus. E: damage to these areas also brings failure to anticipate unpleasantness of an outcome. D: this theory states that the emotional situations arouse the autonomic nervous system and each situation evokes its own special mixture of sympathetic and parasympathetic arousal.
