BioPsychCh12

Autonomic arousal and skeletal actions come first

"I am afraid because I run away."

• Cognitions - appraise situation
• Actions - leads to appropriate action
• Feelings - leads to feeling an emotion

People with weak autonomic/skeletal responses should feel less emotion

Increasing someone's responses should enhance an emotion

Output from autonomic nervous system to the body fails either completely or almost completely

Unable to move facial muscles to make a smile, but this does not hinder their ability to feel happiness

Forebrain areas surrounding the thalamus that is critical for emotion

You see a disgusting picture

• Activity in the left hemisphere (frontal and temportal lobes)
• Low-Moderate autonomic arousal and tendency to approach anger or happiness

Right Hemisphere associated increasing in attention and arousal, inhibits action, and stimulates emotions such as fear and disgust.

Amount that neurons released and replaced

Enzyme that converts tryptophan into serotonin

Tame and placid characteristics

• Bind to GABA
• Induces sleepiness, block epileptic convulsions, and impair memory in the thalamus/cerebral cortex