Lecture 11 Emotions Flashcards
Emotion is typically referred to as an ___ behavioral state called ___.
inferred, affect
We can infer someone’s affect based on their ___.
behaviors (what they do and say)
Emotions are subjective feelings about various ___ or ___.
stimuli or events
Affective behavior is internal and ___.
subjective
What are the four components of emotions from a classical perspective?
physiological, motor, self-report, unconscious behavior
Emotions include ___ and ___ nervous activity – which results in ___ and ___ changes and activity.
central, autonomic, neurohormonal, visceral
Emotions produce changes in ___ rate, ___ pressure, ___, and ___ system.
heart, blood, perspiration, digestive
Emotions produce release of ___ that affect the brain and/or autonomic system.
hormones
What motor behaviors express emotional states?
facial expression, tone of voice, posture
Motor behaviors expressing emotional states are important because they convey overt actions that can differ from observed ____ behavior (i.e., incongruent)
verbal
Without ____ information, many text messages are left open to endless interpretations.
motoric
____ play a very important role in ____ our emotions.
cognitions, shaping
Many cognitive and affective processes are inferred from ____ rankings (such as PANAS).
self-reported
Our cognition of emotions is comprised of both ____ emotional feelings (e.g., I feel happy) and ____ processes (memories, plans, ideas) that influence the way we ____.
subjective, cognitive, feel
____ processes often influence unconscious behaviors.
cognitive
Cognitive processes that influence unconscious behaviors are responsible for altering our behaviors and may include decisions made on the basis of ____, ____, ____.
intuition, “hunch”/”whim”, a craving
Psychologists began speculating about emotions in the early 1900s – however, they had LITTLE TO NO KNOWLEDGE about the ____ basis of emotional ____.
neural, behavior
By the 1920s, physiologists were investigating the relation between ____, ____, and ____ states, and inferred emotional states.
autonomic, endocrine, neurohormonal
Early physiologists looked at heart rate, blood pressure, and ____ ____.
skin temperature
Philip Bard revealed that decorticated dogs displayed strong feelings of ____ to seemingly ____ stimuli. Such a response was initated by which brain structure?
rage, trivial, diencephalon
The diencephalon includes what structures?
thalamus (right and left) and hypothalamus
Hess and Flynn revealed that stimulating different regions of the ____ was responsible for eliciting different “affective responses.”
hypothalamus
The ____ appeared to play an important role in activating the cortex during autonomic arousal – as a way of helping ____ the emotion to the ____ ____.
thalamus, orient, appropriate stimulus
Hess and Flynn’s animal studies were important because they led to the idea that collectively, the ____ and ____ contain the neural circuits responsible for the ____ expression of emotion and the ____ responses to such emotions.
hypothalamus, thalamus, overt, autonomic
One aspect of Kluver-Bucy Syndrome (KBS) is a ____ of ____.
lack of affect
Animals with KBS show ____ fear to threatening stimuli like snakes and threat signals from other humans.
no
In monkeys, bilateral ____ ____ lobectomy resulted in tameness, increased sex drive w/ inappropriate objects, loss of fear, indiscriminate diet, increased attention to all visual stimuli (hypermetamorphosis), oral examination of all objects, and visual agnosia.
anterior temporal
