PSYC100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Frontal Lobe, Interrupt, Amygdala

• School: University of Delaware
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC100
• Professor: Agnes R.Ly

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Immediate responses specific to environmental events or internal thoughts. Ex: when someone tells you that your outfit is on fleek, you feel happy. Interrupt or trigger change in through or behavior. Ex: a day when you"re irritable but you don"t know why. Influence thought and behavior, but not an interruption. Depending on the situation emotions prepare and guide successful behaviors. Ex: running when you are about to be attacked by a dangerous animal. Reasoning and decision making are guided by the emotional evaluation of an action"s consequences. Use of frontal lobe (decision making) and amygdala (emotions) Amygdala ; processing emotional salience of objects. If damaged you can no longer feel some sensations. James-lange theory: the stimulus elicits the physical arousal first. (bodily reactions) then that causes the reaction of fear (emotion) Argues that we have emotion because of physical arousal. Cannon-bard theory: the stimulus elicits the physical arousal and emotion simultaneously but separately in different systems.