Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - Facial Feedback Hypothesis, Parasympathetic Nervous System, Sympathetic Nervous System

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Dr.Mike

Document Summary

Antagonistic nature of sympathetic nervous system and parasympathetic nervous system: rebound effect, the sns and psns affect body, whereas ras affects cortex. Reticular activating system: activates the cortex. Emotion and arousal: highly aroused subjects show little expressiveness, facial feedback hypothesis. Your face expresses your emotion: process of common sense theory. Perception of danger: perception of emotion (fear) Perception of danger: bodily arousal, laird (1974) Subjects asked to tense and relax muscles. Self reported happiness in smile group higher. Self reported anger higher in frown group. Stimuli seen as funnier for smile group: strack et al. (1988) One makes you happier: ekman, levenson and friesen. Inject botox, fmri scans before and after displaying anger: don"t know if facial movement is necessary to show emotion, lower activity level in amygdala and brainstem after botox, freezing of face. Goes to bodily arousal and loops back. Keeps looping until you figure out what to do.