PSY E112 Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Paul Ekman, Peripheral Nervous System, Frontal Lobe
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Emotions are internal automatic and unconscious rxns in response to. Brief display of a feeling made in response to environmental events having motivational significance or in response to memories of such events certain stimuli (affective) Feelings neural rxns become conscious (cognitive) Paul ekman- 7 basic emotions (happiness, sadness, surprise, fear, anger, contempt, disgust) A number of facial expressions are universal. Suggests they are part of common genetic heritage and tied to basic brain functions. Emotion distributed across many sections of brain (probably most in frontal cortex; memory and meaning) Each emotion has spec. pattern of ans arousal and brain uses this to interpret current emotional state. Ans response is coincidental to emotional state. Belief that most phys. responses are too slow to trigger emotional. Label nervous system response cognitively (what"s important is that we"re aroused) Label emotion associated with this arousal according to current situation. Ans responses to fear and sexual desire are similar (incr.
