week 17 Flashcards
What demonstrates a drive state?
Fear, thirst, exhaustion and maternal drives, and drug cravings.
How do drive states differ from other affective or emotional states?
Drive states generate specific benefits for the body.
The tendency of an organism to maintain a stable state across all the different physiological systems in the body is called ______.
homeostasis
One of the ways in which drive states can narrow a person’s attention is by collapsing their time perspective toward:
the present
Dr. Shaw creates a small a lesion in a specific part of a rat’s brain. The result is that the rat stops eating and soon dies of starvation. Which area of the brain was lesioned?
the lateral hypothalamus
Which area of the brain is involved in both sexual arousal and pleasure in females, as well as the satiation of hunger in both sexes?
the ventromedial hypothalamus
Affective experiences that motivate organisms to fulfill goals that are generally beneficial to their survival and reproduction.
Drive state
An ideal level that the system being regulated must be monitored and compared to.
Homeostatic set point
True or false: Greater fluctuations in emotions are associated with worse well-being.
true
True or False: Research has found that participants who want to feel emotions that match the context at hand (e.g., anger when confronting someone)—even if that emotion was negative—are more likely to experience greater well-being.
true
While it is not entirely clear why fluctuations in emotion are linked to worse well-being, one explanation is that strong fluctuations are indicative of ________.
emotional instability
An experiential, physiological, and behavioral response to a personally meaningful stimulus.
Emotion
The degree to which emotions vary or change in intensity over time.
Emotion fluctuation
The experience of mental and physical health and the absence of disorder.
Well-being
________ aims to understand how matter (brain structures and chemicals) creates emotions.
Affective neuroscience
