PSYA02H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Phineas Gage, Personal Boundaries, Prefrontal Cortex
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Relevance of emotion: emotion as the power for motivate us as well as to move us . Three aspects of emotion: behaviour, autonomic, hormonal. Conditioned emotional responses: john b watson - little albert. Serotonin in respect to moderating aggression, perhaps emotional control in general (prozac, Ventral prefrontal cortex in respect to emotional regulation. Sadness: dropping upper eyelids; losing focus in eyes, slight pulling down of lip corners. Anger: eyebrows down and together; eyes glare; narrowing of the lips. Contempt: lip corner tightened and raised on only one side of the face. Surprise: lasts for only 1 second; eyebrows raised; eyes widened; mouth open. Fear: eyebrows raised and pulled together; raised upper eyelids; tensed lower eyelids; lips slightly stretched horizontally back to ears. Common sense: stimulus > conscious feeling > autonomic arousal. James-lange: stimulus > autonomic arousal > conscious feeling. Cannon-bard: stimulus > subcortical brain activity > conscious feeling & autonomic arousal.
