PSYC 102 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: Botulinum Toxin, Thalamus, Interrupt

• School: UBC
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 102
• Professor: Simon Lolliot

Document Summary

Immediate response to environmental events or internal thoughts: psychological: conscious experience (e. g. anxiety, physiological: bodily arousal (e. g. racing heart, behavioral: expressed behavior (e. g. what you saw) Interrupt what is happening: subjective experience of emotions. Mood: longer-term, diffuse, emotional state, doesn"t necessarily have an identifiable object. Facial expressions: communicate, amplify & regulate emotion, smiling with raised cheeks enhances positive feeling, smiling allows you to understand better sentences of positive events, botox leads to lower depression bc it paralizes frowning muscle. Physiology of emotions: amygdala, processes emotional significance of stimuli, generates emotional & behavioural responses. Insula: receives and processes somatosensory signals from entire body. Emotions arise from awareness of physiological responses to stimuli. Emotion requires being physically aroused & cognitively labeling arousal. Emotion is defined by cognitive appraisal: misattribution of arousal, men interviewed on high rickety bridge misattributed fear for sexual arousal. Autonomic nervous response: sympathetic division: arousing, parasympathetic division: calming.