PSYC 370 Chapter Notes - Chapter 17: White Blood Cell, Cytokine, Cognitive Neuroscience
7 Feb 2018
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Chapter 17 biopsychology of emotion stress and health. Early landmarks in the biopsychological investigation of emotion: there are six early landmarks. Particular emotional responses such as facial expressions tend to accompanied the same emotional states. they are products of evolution and he tried to understand them by comparing the different species. Lange theory, emotion inducing sensory stimuli i received an interpreted by the cortex which triggers changes in the visceral organs via the autonomic nervous system and in the skeletal muscles via the somatic nervous system. Autonomic activity and behaviour that are triggered by an emotional event produce the feeling of a motion not vice versa. Cannon bard theory states that emotional stimuli have two independent excitatory effects. They excite both the feeling of a motion in the brain and the expression of emotion in the autonomic and somatic nervous system.
