PSYA01H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Ventromedial Nucleus Of The Hypothalamus, Homeostasis, Periodontitis
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James-lange theory: asserts that stimuli trigger activity in the autonomic nervous system, which in turn produces an emotional experience in the brain. Emotional experience is the consequence and not the cause of our physiological reactions to objects and events in the world. Right about how the patterns of physiological response are not the same for all emotions: cannon-bard theory: asserts that a stimulus simultaneously triggers activity in the autonomic nervous system and emotional experience in the brain. Many different emotional experiences are associated with the same pattern of autonomic activity. ) amygdala: while the cortex is using the information to do a full-scale investigation, the amygdala has already received the information directly from the thala(cid:373)us a(cid:374)d is de(cid:272)idi(cid:374)g if it"s a threat or not. Animals noticed that human and nonhuman animals share certain facial and postural expressions and suggested that expressions were meant to communication information about internal states: universality hypothesis: emotional expressions have the same meaning for everyone.
