PSYC 2410 Lecture Notes - Autonomic Nervous System, Social Emotions, Frontal Lobe
7 Dec 2013
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Emotions are mix of bodily arousal (physiological response), expressive behaviours and conscious experience. Cannon-band: bodily arousal(response) and emotions occur separately, but at the same time to an emotion arousing stimulus. Schechter and singer: two-factor theory that emotions involve physical arousal and cognitive appraisal. 2)cognitive appraisal then determines which emotion is attributed to arousal. High road: emotions travel to thalamus then frontal cortex for cognitive appraisal before the command for an emotion is sent out (hatred, love). Low road: emotional response we are unaware of (liking or disliking of people immediately, fear response). Amygdala sends fear response immediately to body through limbic system without cognitive processing. Many researchers today contend that emotional responses do not necessarily require conscious thinking. Lazarus says emotions arise when we appraise an event whether we know it or not. Negative emotion tends to show more activity in the right frontal cortex. Positive emotion tends to trigger more left frontal lobe activity.
