L33 Psych 100B Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Fast Path, Amygdala, Visual Cortex
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Emotion has three components: physiological process, behavioral response, feeling based on: cognitive appraisal of the situation interpretation of bodily states. Feeling the subjective experience of the emotion, but not the emotion itself. Moods diffuse, long-lasting emotional states that do not have an identifiable object or trigger; doesn"t interrupt what is happening, influence thought and behavior. Circumplex model emotions are plotted along two continuums: v: alence (how negative or positive they are, arousal (how arousing they are) Arousal a generic term used to describe physiological activation or increased autonomic responses. The amygdala is important for processing emotion: before sensory information reaches the amygdala, it passes through the thalamus. From the thalamus, it can take two paths: The fast path (from the thalamus to the amygdala) The slow path (from the thalamus, through the visual cortex, to the amygdala) Enable people to assess and respond to emotion-producing stimuli in different way.
