PSY100Y5 Study Guide - Final Guide: Autonomic Nervous System, Display Rules, Thalamus

• School: UTM
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY100Y5
• Professor: Urbszat Dax

Document Summary

Researchers have also found many cultural disparities in how people think about and express their emotions. Display rules are norms that regulate the appropriate expression of emotions. They prescribe when, how, and to whom people can show various emotions. Nonverbal expressions of emotions vary somewhat across cultures because of culture-specific attitudes and display rules. The (cid:272)o(cid:374)s(cid:272)ious e(cid:454)pe(cid:396)ie(cid:374)(cid:272)e of e(cid:373)otio(cid:374) (cid:396)esults f(cid:396)o(cid:373) o(cid:374)e"s pe(cid:396)(cid:272)eptio(cid:374) of auto(cid:374)o(cid:373)i(cid:272) a(cid:396)ousal. Perception of visceral arousal leads to the conscious experience of fear. Different patterns of autonomic activation lead to the experience of different emotions. Physiological arousal may occur without the experience of emotion. Visceral changes are too slow to precede the conscious experience of emotion. Emotion occurs when the thalamus sends signals simultaneously to the cortex (creating the conscious experience of emotion) and to the autonomic nervous system (creating visceral arousal) People look at situation cues to differentiate between alternative emotions. Experience of emotion depends on 1)autonomic arousal and 2) cognitive interpretation of that arousal)