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48 Cards in this Set
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What is the definition of emotion?
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A response to environmental stimuli that create an intense but short term affective state
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What feelings can be included in this short term affective state?
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-Arousal
-Pleasure -Displeasure |
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What do emotions often lead to?
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Behavior that is expressive, goal directed, and adaptive.
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What was the predominant sensory component in ancestral brains?
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Vision - when a frog saw a fly it ate it.
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What sensory component was added to mammals when active at night?
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Smell
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What happened in the jurassic period?
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The mammalian brain invested heavily in aroma circuits to succeed as reptiles slept.
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What did this sense of smell establish?
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What was to become the limbic cortex.
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What are the 2 components of emotion?
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-Sensory
-Motor/endocrine |
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How is emotion related to illness?
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Illness induces emotion
Emotion induces illness |
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What is the basis of sensory coding?
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Labeled line coding
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What is one of the leading integrative frameworks for understanding emotion modeled after?
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The color vision system
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How many types of receptors in color vision?
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3 (sml the bgr)
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When one pigment is lost in color blindness, how many colors are lost?
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2
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When one emotion center is lost how many emotions lost?
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2
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What are emotions a mammalian elaboration of?
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Vertebrate arousal patterns
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What happens in vertebrate arousal patterns?
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Neurochemicals (DA, NE, Serotonin) step up or step down the brain's activity level
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How is the brain's activity level visible?
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As body movements, gestures, and postures.
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What was life like before the mammalian brain?
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-Automatic
-Preconscious -Predictable |
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How did reptilian motor centers react to vision and other sensory cues?
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With preset body movements and programmed postures.
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What happened with the arrival of night-active mammals?
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Smell replaced sight as the dominant sense.
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Why did the mammalian brain invest so heavily in aroma circuits during the Jurassic period?
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To succeed at night while the reptiles slept!
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Why were these odor pathways important?
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They formed the neural blueprint for what would become our limbic brain.
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Who came up with the integrative framework for understanding emotions?
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Robert Plutchik
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What is Plutchik's Theory of Emotion?
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All emotion can be classified into 4 opposing pairs of basic emotions or their combinations.
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What is Plutchik's solid?
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A representation of the 8 basic emotions and their dimensions.
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What are 2 main dimensions of emotion?
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-Intensity (fear vs terror)
-Polarity (grief vs ecstasy) |
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What are the 4 pairs of emotions?
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1. Fear/anger
2. Surprise/anticipation 3. Sadness/joy 4. Disgust/acceptance |
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Fear + Surprise =
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Awe
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Surprise + Sadness =
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Disappointment
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Sadness + Disgust =
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Remorse
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Anger + Anticipation =
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Aggression
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Love/Anger/Fear =
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Jealousy
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Anticipation + Joy =
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Optimism
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Disgust + Anger =
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Contempt
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Acceptance + Fear =
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Submission
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Joy + Acceptance =
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Love
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What does each emotion produce in a person in response to a stimulus event? Why?
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A specific pattern of behavior and arousal - to enhance survival.
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What primeval arousal center originated in fishes and is central to emotional expression in men?
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The amygdala
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How does the amygdala function in general?
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-Recieves multisensory input
-Integrates it -Sends output to motor, ANS, and neuroendocrine areas of the CNS |
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Where does the Amygdala recieve input from?
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-Sensory thalamus
-Hippocampus -Reticular activating system -Entorhinal cortex -Polyodal sensory areas -Sensory association areas |
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How many nuclei make up the amygdala?
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About 10 distinct nuclei
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How are autonomic expressions of emotional states mediated by the amygdala?
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Through its connections with the hypothalamus via Stria terminalis
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By what projection to what 2 areas does the amygdala influence Conscious Feeling?
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Via the Amygdalofugal pathway - 1. To the cingulate gyrus
2. To the Orbitofrontal cortex |
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What is the feedback circuit for emotion?
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1. Trigger
2. Emotional response 3. Behavior |
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Most of the time how is our emotional experience influenced?
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By thought
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How can thinking affect our emotions and behavioral response?
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We can process our feelings and DECIDE on a responsive course of action.
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What is it called when we become INTENSELY triggered and our responses are out of control?
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Emotional hijacking
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What is the advantage of oppenency and feedback of emotions?
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We can control emotions by stimulating the opposite when one is viewed as negative.
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