Week 17 Flashcards
What is a drive state?
An affective behaviour that results in specific benefits for the body
What is the purpose of a drive state?
Maintaining stability across the entire body, remaining at homeostasis
What happens when drive states intensify?
Direct attention towards elements, activities, forms of consumption that satisfy biological needs
How do drive states effect time?
Produce a collapsing of time perspective towards the present, impatience
What is hunger triggered by?
Low glucose levels
What is satiation?
decline of hunger and termination of eating behaviour
What part of the brain is stimulated in male arousal?
Preoptic area
What part of the brain is stimulated in female arousal?
ventromedial hypothalamus
What are the results of frequent positive emotions?
life satisfaction, physical health, resilience, social connection, longevity
How does the external environment impact emotions?
Determine what emotion is the best to feel
What is affective neuroscience?
Examines how the brain creates emotional responses?
What are emotions?
psychological phenomena’s that involve changes to the body, autonomic nervous system, urges
What do emotions revolve around?
survival and reproductive needs
What part of the brain is responsible for basic emotions?
Cerebral cortex
What parts of the brain are involved in desire?
Lateral hypothalami’s, amygdala, nucleus accumbens, frontal cortex
How are the regions associated with desire activated?
Dopamine
What are the desire brain structures sensitive to?
Cocaine
What part of the brain is involved with liking?
nucleus accumbens
What drug is the liking part of the brain sensitive to?
opioids
What part of the brain does pleasure involve?
Orbitofrontal cortex
What part of the brain is involved with fear?
central amygdala and periaqueductal gray
What drugs are the fear parts of the brain sensitive to?
Glutamate, corticotrophin
What parts of the brain are involved with rage?
Medial amygdala, hypothalamus, periaqueductal gray?
What parts of the brain are involved with love?
Dorsal preoptic are and stria terminalis
