Do Now Which theory of emotion do you

Do Now • Which theory of emotion do you agree with and why?

Unit 8 B Motivation and Emotion: Emotions, Stress, and Health Embodied Emotion

Emotions & the Autonomic Nervous Systems • Autonomic Nervous System mobilizes your body for action and calms it when the crisis ends • Sympathetic Nervous System • Arousing • tell adrenal glands to release stress hormones epinephrine and norepinephrine (adrenaline) • Parasympathetic Nervous System • Calming • stops the release of adrenaline • Moderate arousal is ideal!! • Alert but not on edge

ANS= Controls Physiological Arousal

Similarities Among Emotions • Different emotions can produce similar physiological arousal • EX: scared and excited • The different movie experiment strengthened this argument Do these people look scared or excited

Differences Among Emotions • emotions differ in the brain circuits • Amygdala • Emotional control center • fearful faces show more activity in the amygdala • Frontal lobes • left lobe- positive attitudes, more dopamine receptors • Nucleus Acummbens - a neural pathway that increases dopamine levels runs from the frontal lobes to nearby clusters of neurons, region lights up when natural pleasures or drug induced, depressed people smile or laugh when electrically stimulated • right lobe would be more negative personalities

Cognition Can Define Emotions • Spill over effect • when our response to one event spills over into our response to the next event. • EX: imagine getting home after a good run and find a message saying you got a long-wanted job. With arousal lingering from the run you would feel more excited that if you had gotten the news after waking up from a nap. • the idea of better make-up sex, the arousal that lingers from a fight may intensify sexual passion • Arousal fuels emotions, cognition channels it

Cognition Does NOT Always Precede Emotion Sensory input can be routed directly to the amygdala via the thalamus for an instant emotional response (Zajonc/Le. Doux) Or it can be routed to the cortex for analysis (Lazarus/Schachter-Singer)

Today • Read Together!!! • Expressed Emotion • Pgs 377 - top of 384 • HW= Experienced Emotion (384 -396)