01:830:101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Autonomic Nervous System, Sympathetic Nervous System, Homeostasis

• School: Rutgers University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: 01:830:101
• Professor: L.Jacobs

Document Summary

Emotions are significant and crucial parts of our. Emotion is an elusive construct, hard to define and experience measure. The nature of emotions is better understood now through research but some important questions remain unanswered. We would make better decisions if we could keep our emotions in check. Brain damaged people with impaired emotions are generally inferior decision-makers. Emotions are a powerful informer of our decisions, closely related to motivation, as almost any motivation has an emotion tied to it. The role of the autonomic nervous system. Definition of autonomic controls the functioning of the internal organs. The autonomic nervous system is the division that. The ans has two subdivisions, the sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems. It describes functions of the nervous system not under voluntary control, e. g the regulation of heartbeat or gland secretions. It described an action or response that occurs without conscious control.