Lecture 14.docx

Lecture 14: Emotions Common Sense – Event (scary dog) Feeling (fear) Behavior (arousal) James-Lange – Event (scary dog) Physical/Behavior (arousal) Feeling (fear) Cannon-Bard – Event Simultaneous Physical behavior & Feeling Schachter – Event Body Response Cognitive Interpretation Feeling Schacht...

Lecture 14: Emotions Common Sense – Event (scary dog) Feeling (fear) Behavior (arousal) James-Lange – Event (scary dog) Physical/Behavior (arousal) Feeling (fear) Cannon-Bard – Event Simultaneous Physical behavior & Feeling Schachter – Event Body Response Cognitive Interpretation Feeling Schachter & Singer Depending on the behavior encountered subjects were more likely to feel either Happier or Angrier If subjects don’t know the reason for their arousal emotional state, they search their environment for clues to interpret the emotion Cannon-Bard Explain quadriplegia can still experience emotions despite being unable to physically to the threat Commonalities between behavior & neural systems associated with particular emotional states C – Neocortical P – Upper limbic R – Deeply subcortical All lead to Emotions, which is Unidirectional LeDoux’s Emotion Problem Objects basic emotions are innately programmed in subcortical circuits Unidirectional LeDoux’s Emotion Solution Emotions are higher levels states instantiated by cortical circuits The neural circuitry generates experience of emotions LeDoux – Cognition Internal representation of things/events to formulate a behavioral response when confronted by external stimuli Behavior Model Stimulus (environment) Black Box Response (Behavior) Cognitive Model Input (environment) Mediational Process (mental event) Output (behavior) Learning involves Cognitive Dimension – Representations in Brain are Linked Together Classical Conditions LeDoux’s Problem with Cognition No problem in inferring common internal cognitive processes form similarities in behavior You can’t ascribe feelings of pleasure in Non-Human Solipsism Self-centered