PSY 12000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Amygdala
11 Dec 2018
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Emotion: a positive or negative experience that is a associated with a particular pattern of physiological activity. James-lange theory:our emotional experience is the consequence of physiological activity. A stimulus triggers activity in our body (physiological activity) which in turn produced an emotional experience (stimulus >physiological activity >emotion) A stimulus and the activity (the activity = the emotion) Pulse racing, heart rate increasing, palms sweating. Cannon-bard theory: a stimulus simultaneously triggers activity in the body and emotional experience in the brain. Schachter and singer (1962) > two factor theory: emotions are based on inferences about the causes of physiological arousal. How we perceive the arousal will lead to how we label it . Aurora"s brain surgery: the surgeons accidentally damaged a brain structure called the. The monkey survived; however, there was a alteration in her behavior. The amygdala is critical in making appraisals, or an evaluation the emotion-relevant aspects of a stimulus.
