Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Frontal Lobe, Jon D. Levenson, Brainstem

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Mike Atkinson

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Lecture 7 q3 chapter 11: motivation & emotion (continued) Tourangeau & ellsworth (1979): highly aroused subjects show little expressiveness, supports freud, supporting darwin, facial feedback hypothesis, ex: izard (1977) Common sense theory: emotion provoking events perception (danger) perception of emotion (fear) bodily arousal. James-lange theory: emotion provoking events perception (danger) bodily arousal . Perception of emotion (fear: perception of emotion after you experience arousal. Izard: facial feedback: changes in facial expression responsible for distinct emotion, number of studies indicate that adopting appropriate expression yields emotion. Laird (1974): subjects asked to tense & relax muscles, smile or frown, self-reported happiness is higher in smile group, self-reported anger higher in frown group, stimuli seen as funnier for smile group. Strack et al. (1988): holding pencil in teeth/lips. Inject botox fmri scans before & after while displaying anger: lower activity level in amygdala & brainstem after.