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

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

3. 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

4. ANS= Controls Physiological Arousal

5. 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

6. 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

7. 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

8. Cognition Does NOT Always Precede Emotion
Sensory input can be routed directly to the amygdala via the thalamus for an instant emotional response
Or it can be routed to the cortex for analysis

9. Today Read Together!!! HW= Qs #8-10 (Experienced Emotion)
Qs #5-7 (Expressed Emotion)
Pgs 377- top of 384
HW= Qs #8-10 (Experienced Emotion)