Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Adrenergic, Frontal Lobe, Facial Nerve Paralysis

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Dr.Mike

Document Summary

Antagonists nature of sns and psns rebound effect. Reticular activation system: ras, activates cortex. Only difference is that ras activates cortex and sns activates the body. Freud: expression reduces experience: tourangeau and ellsworth (1979) Supports freud: majority of data supports darwin facial feedboack hypothesis, eg izard 1977. Emotion provoking events perception (danger) perception of emotion (fear) bodily arousal. Emotion provoking events perception (danger) bodily arousal perception of emotion (fear) Changes in facial expression responsible for distinct emotion. Number of studies indicate that adopting appropriate expression yields emotion. Self reported happiness is higher in smile group. Stimuli seen as funnier for smile group etc . High, must examine skin temperature, if high anger, if low fear and sadness. Patient (fp) could not display emotions but did report feeling emotional. Inject botox fmri scans before and after while displaying anger: lower activity level in amygdala and brainstem after. Emotion provoking events appraisal bodily arousal or emotion.