PSYCH 110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Startle Response, 5-Ht Receptor, Limbic System
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Behavioral - facial behavior, whole body behavior, vocalizations. Physiological - peripheral (heart rate, skin conductance, respiration), startle response, Eliciting stimulus (bear) conscious emotion (fear) autonomic arousal behavioral responses (ie. increased heart rate) or. Bear increased heart rate fear. Folk psychology: stimulus perception/interpretation (danger) particular emotion experienced (fear) specific pattern of autonomic arousal (heart rate etc. ) Other study that showed emotions can be induced by facial expression. Function interrupts/changes ongoing processing and focuses attention and direction of responses. Motivates cognition and action to guide and coordinate the engagement of the individual in the physical and social environment. Increases (or decreases) salience or value of an event to facilitate adaptive associations between context, event, emotion feeling, and response. Provides a neural (often conscious) workspace for assembling solutions under the influence of feelings. Different emotions and different structures of each emotion have different functions.
