Emotions Flashcards

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How does emotions influence health?

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-Always an emotional aspect to how we react to body signals
- What we pays attention
- Important factor, influence health behaviors and how we deal with health threats

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What is the limbic system?

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  • A part of the brain, functions including both emotions, emotion regulation and memory
  • Hypothalamus
    Calm, soothing
  • Thalamus
    Relays information
  • Hippocampus
    Part of memory conversion
  • Amygdala
    Signaling danger/threat
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What are emotions?

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  • Different depending on what emotion theory, but it is multidimensional
  • Emotions as feelings
    -Emotions as motivations
  • Emotions as evaluations
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Fear and avoidance model of pain

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A circle model showing how fear of pain can lead to avoidance of what triggered the pain
-If you show no fear then youll get out of the circle, confronting your pain and be able to recover

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How can different emotions effect health behaviours?

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  • Anxiety
    In correlation with illnesses, can make it worse
    Breast cancer example
  • Depression
    Loose motivation to do anything
    Reduced optimism
  • Anger
    Correlation between anger and heart conditions - study
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