PSYC 4750 Chapter Notes - Chapter 13: Medial Frontal Gyrus, Deeper Understanding, Basal Ganglia

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 4750
• Professor: Mark Fenske

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Table 13. 1 biological and cognitive aspects of emotion. Facial feedback - attributions: with these biological systems engaged the person experiences emotion and is ready to cope with the impeding threat. Sequence of events seems to be stimulus -> emotion -> bodily reaction: william james argued against this; suggested that our bodily changes do not follow the emotional experience, Stimulus -> bodily reaction -> emotion the body reacts uniquely (discriminatorily) to different emotion-eliciting events the body does not react to non emotional eliciting events emotional experience follows bodily responses. Critics argued that the sort of bodily reactions he referred to were actually part of flight-or-fight that did not vary from one emotion to the next. Also argued that emotional experience was quicker than physiological reactions. Distinct differences in heart rate, skin temperature and skin conductance emerged. E. g. with anger hr and st both increased. Just as james expected, different emotions produced distinguishable patterns of bodily activity.