PSYA02H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Dehydroepiandrosterone, Puberty

• School: UTSC
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYA02H3
• Professor: Steve Joordens

Document Summary

I emotional experience: the feeling machine: multidimensional scaling, arousal (high low, valence (negative positive, the emotional body, james lange theory of emotion stimuli trigger activity in the autonomic nervous system (ans), which in turn produces an emotional experience in the brain, cannon bard theory a stimulus simultaneously triggers activity in the ans and emotional experience in the brain, support: ans too slow to trigger emotional experience, support: people cannot detect changes in activation of their ans, support: nonemotional stimuli produce same activation of ans, schachter and singer"s two factor theory. Inappropriate sexual behavior a. b: lack of fear, damage to limbic system, the amygdala, appraisal an evaluation of the emotion relevant aspects of a stimulus, the fast pathway of fear (thalamus amygdala, the slow pathway of fear (thalamus cortex amygdala, the regulation of emotion cognitive and behavioral strategies people use to influence their own emotional experience, reappraisal changing one"s emotional experience by changing the meaning of the emotion eliciting stimulus.