PSY 324 Chapter Notes - Chapter 11: Autonomic Nervous System, Sympathetic Nervous System, Heritability
11 Apr 2020
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Emotional situations arouse 2 branches of autonomic nervous system (review chap. 3: the sympathetic good for fof, the parasympathetic rest and digest. James"s defenders talk about emotional feelings, they mean literally feelings that is, sensations and sensations come only from sense organs, such as those that detect body actions: other theorists are talking about the complete emotional experience. Do people have a few basic emotions? purposes. People recognize expressions from own culture better than those from other cultures: young ppl able to recognize the expression for happiness at better than 50 percent accuracy, but low accuracy on other expressions. We also rarely identify someone"s emotion from facial expression alone. Alternative to the idea of basic emotions: emotional feelings vary along 2+ continuous dimensions, such as weak versus strong, or pleasant versus unpleasant. Activity of the left hemisphere, especially its frontal and temporal lobes, relates to what.
