PSY 111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Limbic System, Stanley Schachter, Hypothalamus
22 Aug 2018
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Theories about emotions, james-lange theory of emotions as gut reactions: We experience some emotions almost instantaneously. motion. experience. Yet emotional experiences frequently occur even before there"s time for certain physiological changes to be set into: physiological arousal doesn"t invariably produce emotional, there can"t be a one-to-one correspondence between visceral changes. & emotional experience: visceral changes by themselves might not be sufficient to produce emotion. Internal organs produce relatively limited range of sensations: cannon-bard theory of emotion: After we perceive an emotion-producing stimulus, thalamus is initial site of emotional response. Thalamus sends signal to autonomic nervous system, producing visceral response. Thalamus also communicates message to cerebral cortex regarding nature of emotion being experienced. Hence, it"s not necessary for different emotions to have unique physiological patterns associated w/ them. Hypothalamus & limbic system play a major role in emotional experience: schachter-singer theory of emotions as labels:
