emotion Flashcards
What part of the brain mediates and controls emotion?
The limbic system
What is emotion?
Conscious experiences and subjective feelings that can also impact physiological and biological processes. there are 6 core emotions - happiness, sadness, fear, disgust, surprise and anger.
What is included in the main network of emotion?
The prefrontal cortex, amygdala and periaqueductal grey.
How is the prefrontal cortex involved in emotion?
The pfc receives sensory information and projects inhibitory signals to amygdala so amygdala can mediate emotional responses
Also involved in decision making
What is the role of the PAG in emotion?
amygdala projects messages to pag
PAG produces responses especially involved in fear responses
Ventral pag (vlPAG) - when activated by amygdala causes freezing response
Dorsal (dPAG) - when activated by amygdala causes fight/flight responses.
What is the role of the amygdala?
Recieves signals from pfc mediating and controlling emotions to stimulate pag to produce resposne.
What is the James-lange theory?
Peripheral physiological responses cause emotion - certain bodily patterns cause different emotions.
What is the cannon-bard theory?
C-b theory states both peripheral and emotion are produced at same time expl what is known to us as our emotions.
What is sachter singer theory?
Peripheral and context are interpreted to produce emotions.
Arguments against james lange
- peripheral bodily changes are too small to produce such diverse emotions.
- similiar patterns for multiple emotions.
emotions to lead to peripheral response sometimes
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