PSYCH261 Chapter Notes -Frontal Lobe, Behavioral Activation, Thalamus
14 Jul 2014
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Psych 261 psychological psychology. Motivation: an internal process that modifies the way an organism responds to a certain class of external stimuli. Emotions, autonomic arousal, and the james- lange theory. Feeling a body change is important for feeling emotion. Rapid breathing makes people worry they are suffocating, experience panic attack. People with this still experience happiness: perception of body"s actions contribute to emotional feelings ( embodied ) Contributions of the left and right hemispheres. Module 12. 2: attack and escape behaviours. Attack behaviours: depends on individual and situation. Serotonin synapses and aggressive behaviour. Estimated from concentration of 5- hydroxyindoleacetic acid in the csf: social isolation does not affect female mice in this way. Therefore, the amygdala may be responsible for detecting emotional information and directing brain areas to pay attention to it properly. Linked to abnormalities in hypothalamus: associated with decreased gaba activity and increased orexin. Induce sleepiness, block epileptic convulsions, impair memory: ex.
