01:830:101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: Sympathetic Nervous System, Autonomic Nervous System, Parasympathetic Nervous System

• School: Rutgers University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: 01:830:101
• Professor: Dickson

Document Summary

Easy and quick, but their accuracy is limited. People rate their happiness or other emotions by comparison to how they usually feel, not in comparison to how others feel. Harder to control (ex: someone who is pretending to be calm or happy may show occasional brief signs of anger, fear or sadness. Autonomic nervous system: the section of the nervous system that controls the organs such as the heart and intestines. Biologists believe that it was independent of the brain and spinal cord, but now we know that the brain and the spinal cord regulate the autonomic nervous system. Sympathetic nervous system: chains of neuron clusters just to the left and right of the spinal cord that arouse the body for vigorous action. (readies the body for emergency action) Flight-or-fight it increases your heart rate, breathing rate, sweating, and flow of epinephrine.