PSYC 100 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Limbic System, Heritability, Thalamus

• School: McGill University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100
• Professor: Jens C Pruessner

Document Summary

Emotion and motivation: removal of eliot s frontal lobe tissue left him unable to experience emotion. Emotions (affect): feelings involving subjective evaluation, physiological processes, cognitive beliefs. Immediate, specific responses to enviro events, trigger changes in thought/ behavior. Moods: diffuse, long-lasting emotional states, influence thought/behavior, vague sense of feeling certain ways. Emotions have subjective component: we know we are experiencing emotions because we feel them. Secondary: blends of primary (remorse, guilt, submission, anticipation). Circumplex: valence ~ negative/positive, activation ~ arousal: physiological activation / increased autonomic response: negative/positive affect: independent, simultaneous. Pos activation states assoc. w/ more dopamine, neg activation assoc. w/ less norepinephrine. Crying relieves stress via pns activation, social function. Emotions have physiological component: james-lange: person s interpretation of physical changes person feels emotion. Physical changes occur in distinct patterns, translate to specific emotions, when we perceive patterns of bodily responses, we feel emotion.