PSCH 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Peripheral Nervous System, Thalamus, Pituitary Gland
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Emotion, theories of emotion, james peripheral theory, cannon"s. Definition: a temporary positive or negative experience that is felt as happening to the self, that is accompanied by a feeling, a thought, and a physiological response. Definition: a prolonged consistent feeling state, either positive or negative. A psychological state that combined three components and that often has a distinctive accompanying facial expression. Definition: feedback from the facial muscles directly influences emotional experience. Definition: emotion occurs directly in the brain (cns) with or without signals from our peripheral nervous system. Walter cannon thought that emotion started in the thalamus. Definition: feeling state; refers to the feelings that are ever- present of conscious experience. Universal variations in feeling states; variations that can describe the mood of any and all people. In psychology of mood, the complete set of dimensions requires to describe variations in mood experiences is the structure of mood. Definition: the state of energy the body is in (e. g sleepy vs.
