PSY 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Orbitofrontal Cortex, Sympathetic Nervous System, Behavioral Medicine
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James-lange - somatic [body] is informing the mind, nothing about cognition. Canon-bard - thalamus simultaneously sends things to gut and cortex. [emotion happens at the cortex] still nothing on cognition. Stimulus -- emotion and or physiological arousal. Schachter-singer - 2 factor, level and label" thoughts about body get changed to emotions. Stimulus -- response -- cognitive labeling -- emotion. Cognitive appraisal - our thoughts about our situation lead to emotion, cut out physiological response, label and evaluate. Health psychology or behavioral medicine includes all we"re talking about today. Emotions are linked with autonomic nervous system activity - heart rate, breathing, sweaty palms, etc. Damage results in impairments in fear conditioning [classical conditioning] Orbitofrontal cortex is involved in processing emotional cues. Damage causes inappropriate reactions to others emotional expressions. Stress - pattern of responses an organism makes to stimulus events that disturb its equilibrium and tax or exceed its ability to cope [all about response not the thing itself]
