PSYC 2000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Orbitofrontal Cortex, Fear Conditioning, Display Rules
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Defined as the feeling aspect of consciousness characterized by certain physical arousal, certain behavior that reveals the emotion to the outside world, and inner awareness of feelings. Facial expressions can vary across diff cultures. Labeling emotion - interpreting the subjective feeling by giving it a label. Anger, fear, disgust, happiness, surprise, and sadness. Although the situations that cause these emotions may differ from culture to culture, the expression of particular emotions remains strikingly the same. Amygdala - complex structure w many diff nuclei and subdivisions, whose roles have been investigated primarily thru studies of fear conditioning. Emotional stimuli travel to the amygdala by both a fast, crude low road (subcortical) and a slower but more involved cortical high road . Frontal lobes, anterior cingulate cortex, and lateral orbitofrontal cortex. Common sense theory: a stimulus leads to an emotion, which then leads to bodily arousal. Snarling dog - conscious fear - ans arousal.
