PSYCH 1100H Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Higher-Order Thinking, Sympathetic Nervous System, Prefrontal Cortex
19 Feb 2016
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Common features of emotional states: triggered by external or internal stimuli, result from our interpretation/appraisals of these stimuli. Schachter"s cognition-plus-feedback theory: perception of stimulus influence the type of emotion felt and sensory feedback about degree of bodily arousal influence the intensity felt: body responds physiologically. Early warning about change in the environment. Fairly quick response to what your amygdala processed. Or the amydgala sends it to cerebral cortex to process it further. Higher order thinking, personality, makes deliberate responses based on stimulus. Changes in pupil size: include behavioral tendencies. Basic emotions: happiness, disgust, surprise, sadness, fear, anger. Discrete emotion theory: basic emotions are innate and associated with distinctive bodily and facial function. Everyone smiles when they"re happy and frowns when they"re angry. Cultural display rules: guidelines that dictate how and when particular emotions are to be expressed. Polygraphs: monitor indictators of sympathetic nervous system arousal while an individual is being questioned. Heart rate, blood pressure, respiration rate, skin conductance.
