PSYC18H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Vagal Tone, Cardiac Output, Frontal Lobe
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James and lange said emotions are in the bodily sensations. Reduce heart rate and increase digestive process. Sympa branch increases heart rate, bp, and co and shuts down digestive processes. Associated with defensive, aggressive, and sexual behaviour. Pans has vagus nerve at top and sacral region (bottom) of spinal cord constricts pupils and bronchioles secretion of fluids in digestive glands, saliva, and tears increases blood to clit and penis. James lange theory = theory of autonomic specificity. Many pathways and many ways in which responses could combine. Arousal response and release of hormone adrenaline. Shift of bodily resources to prepare for action (fight, flight, fornicate) Argued that lange"s pathways were too diffuse and general to account for varieties of emotional experience. Ans responses too slow for how fast we feel emotion or switch emotion. Ans changes that lange claimed were emotion, happen during fever, cold, or asphyxia. We are insensitive to actual (physical) autonomic sensations.
