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What are three components of emotional response?

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Behavioural, autonomic, hormonal

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What are emotions?

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Physiological changes and accompanying behaviours

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What are behavioural components of emotional response?

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Muscular movements that are appropriate to the situation that elicits them

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What are autonomic responses?

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Facilitate behaviours and provide mobilization of energy (through increased activity of sympathetic branch and decrease of parasympathetic branch)

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What are hormonal components of emotional response?

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Reinforce autonomic responses through epinephrine and norepinephrine (adrenal medulla)
And through steroid hormones (adrenal cortex)

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Where does integration of the behavioural, autonomic and hormonal components of emotion happen?

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Amygdala

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What are the three primary nuclei in the amygdala involved in emotion?

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Lateral nucleus, basal nucleus, central nucleus

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Where does the lateral nucleus receive info from?

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The neocortex, incl ventromedial prefrontal cortex, thalamus, hippocampus

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Where does lateral nucleus send info to?

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Basal nucleus (and other parts of brain)

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Where do lateral nucleus and basal nucleus send info to?

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Ventromedial prefrontal cortex

Central nucleus

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What part of brain facilitates expression of aversive emotional stimuli?

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Central nucleus of amygdala

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What is impact of lesions on central nucleus of amygdala?

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Reduced fear responses to threat
Reduced chance to develop ulcers
Reduced stress hormones

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What does excitation of central nucleus of amygdala produce?

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Physiological and behavioural signs of fear and agitation

Stress induced illnesses

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What is a conditioned emotional response?

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A classically conditioned response that occurs when a neutral stimulus is paired with an aversive stimulus
Usually includes behavioural, autonomic and hormonal physiological changes

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What are the physiological changes caused by fear?

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Heart rate and blood pressure increase
Muscles become tense
Adrenal glands produce epinephrine

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Where do physical changes responsible for classical conditioning of CER occur?

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Lateral nucleus

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What happens to the conditioned emotional response if it is only paired with the conditioned stimulus (ie without aversive stimulus?)

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Response is extinguished (not forgetting).

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Where does inhibition of conditioned stimulus occur (in CER)?

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Ventromedial prefrontal cortex

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What role does ventromedial prefrontal cortex play in CER?

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Inhibition (extinguishing) of CR

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What are two divisions of autonomic nervous system

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Sympathetic

Parasympathetic

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Where does sympathetic division of ANS come from?

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Thoracic and lumbar regions of spine

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Where does parasympathetic division of ANS come from?

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Sacral and cranial parts of spine

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What part of ANS is involved with energy expenditure?

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Sympathetic

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What part of ANS is associated with energy conservation?

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Parasympathetic

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Where do axons of sympathetic neurons exit grey matter of spine?

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Ventral roots

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Which sympathetic preganglionic cells don’t form synapses in gangli?

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Those connected to adrenal medulla

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What does adrenal medulla resemble?

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Sympathetic ganglia.

Connected to by preganglionic axons, secretory cells are v like post ganglionic sympathetic neurons

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What does parasympathetic division of ANS control?

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Functions that occur during relaxed state
(Salivation, gastric and intestinal motility etc)
Deactivates energy system

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Describe neurons from parasympathetic division

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Very long presynaptic axon, v short postsynaptic

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Describe role of amygdala in expression of emotion

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Integrates the three responses to aversive stimuli (behavioural, autonomic, hormonal)

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What is augmented startle response?

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Startle response - designed to protect organs in body.
Add element to aversive stimulus (eg light + shock) through CER
Creates greater startle response

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Where does augmented startle response happen

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When input from amygdala connects with nucleus particularis pontis caudalis

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What does stimulation of amygdala produce?

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Feeling of fear (only place that does)

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What do lesions of amygdala result in?

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Less feeling of fear
Less augmented startle response
Less capacity for CER

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What part of brain is activated in CER?

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Amygdala

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What part of brain is activated in extinguishing of CER?

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Ventromedial prefrontal cortex

37
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What are the five forms of aggressive behaviour?

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Treat behaviour
Defensive behaviour
Submission
Predation
Within species and gender aggression
- all use diff parts of brain
38
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Describe pathway for aggression

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Input from amygdala and hypothalamus goes to periaquaductal grey matter (PAG)

  • dorsal PAG –> defensive rage
  • ventral PAG –> predatory rage
39
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What do low levels of seratonin lead to?

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Increased (unmoderated) levels of aggression

Small monkeys killed because they took on big monkeys

40
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What mediates within species aggression?

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Androgen- sensitive neurons in medial pre-optic (MPA) area

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What does testosterone injected into MPA (medial pre-optic area) lead to?

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Increased aggression in males

42
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What are two effects of testosterone

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Organisation - testosterone ‘preps’ brain making it more sensitive to testosterone
Activation - aggressive behaviour stimulated by circulating testosterone

43
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What does early exposure to testosterone do?

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increases sensitivity of subsequent activation response to testosterone

the earlier in development this occurs, the stronger the response

both males and females

44
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Describe interaction of alcohol and testosterone

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increased alcohol increases testosterone [hence aggression]

45
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Describe role of ventromedial prefrontal cortex in emotion

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appropriate emotional responses to complex situations

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What does damage to ventromedial prefrontal cortex result in?

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Reduces inhibitions and self-concerns
Become indifferent to consequences of actions
Pain no longer produces emotional response

47
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What are display rules?

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Cultural rules that describe when and how we should show signs of particular emotions

48
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What are the three aspects of emotions?

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Recognition
Experience
Expression

49
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Describe hemispheric specialisation of emotion

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Left is for meaning

Right is for emotion

50
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Describe cultural relationships to emotion

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Emotions expressed in universal ways

similarly across sighted and blind people

51
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What does brain damage to right hemisphere result in [re emotions]

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Recognition of emotions

52
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Describe localisation of function through lesions [emotion]

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Can recognise faces but not emotional expression
Can recognise emotional expression but not faces
Can recognise visual expression but not auditory expression

53
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Describe role of amygdala in recognition of emotions

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Increase in activity related to fear, not happiness
Damage to amygdala impairs ability to recognise emotions
Restricted to visual component of emotional expression

54
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What are the two pathways in visual processing

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Magnocellular - low frequency, low detail, emotional information
Parvocellular (visual cortex) - high frequency, fusiform facial recognition, detail, colour

55
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What is primary source of visual information to amygdala?

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Subcortical input from colliculus and pulvinar [thalamus] - magnocellular. Source of emotional input.
Amygdala will recognise fear before it recognises object - speed of magnocellular system

56
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Describe blindsight

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Where some blind people are able to recognise emotional expression

57
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Why are gaze cells necessary

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If someone is looking angry, need to know if they are looking at you

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What do mirror cells do in emotion?

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Mirror expression, tells you what emotion is being expressed

emerges from sensori-motor cortex

59
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Describe volitional facial paresis

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Can’t do emotions when asked to smile; when smile naturally, muscles work

60
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Describe emotional facial paresis

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Can force a smile

can’t do one when spontaneously smiling

61
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What do chimerical faces show?

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That rhs responsible for emotion

[chimerical - mirrors rhs of face to lhs [creating composite face]]

62
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Describe James-Lange theory of emotion

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Stimulus produces behavioural response; Feelings of emotions are produced by feedback to behaviours
Feeling is result of emotional response, not cause

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Describe Cannon-Bard theory of emotion

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Stimulus leads to cognitive appraisal which leads to simultaneous emotional, visceral and behavioural changes [eg thalamus sends signal simultaneously to cortex (feeling), viscera (arousal) and to skeletal muscles (action)

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How has James-Lange theory of emotion been supported?

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  • Spinal transections lead to reduction in emotional intensity
  • Facial feedback - different emotional expressions lead to different autonomic activity [eg happiness = decreased heartrate, no change in skin temperature
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How do animals learn to be afraid?

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Pair neutral stimulus with aversive stimulus

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