PSY 1001 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Autonomic Nervous System, Donald O. Hebb
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Emotional responses have three aspects: feelings, autonomic responses, and somatic responses. Emotion: a state, elicited by a strongly motivational event or anticipation of such an event, that produces a coordinated set of adaptive responses. Emotional responses aspects: feelings, autonomic responses, somatic responses. Darwin"s view of emotion: emotional is a universal aspect that are instinctive and promote survival of species. Ekman"s basic emotions: happiness, sadness, anger, fear, disgust, surprise. Appetitive: eating, drinking, reproducing, nurturing young, positively correlated. Defensive: escape, avoidance, defensive displays, aggression, negatively correlated. Rat emotions: test based on how the rats are startled based on arousal. Psychopath: their emotionlessness reflects a detached, fearless, and possibly dissociated state, revealing a low-state autonomic nervous system and lack of anxiety. Beta-blockers and ptsd: blocks norepinephrine to inhibit fears. Mechanisms of addiction: activates reward system/ high , craving, withdrawal. Bridge study: shaky bridge produced more arousal and more response.
