Why do I feel that way?

thalamus

gateway to the brain for sight, sound, touch, and tastesensory info before that info reaches the cortex

hypothalamus

regulating bodily functions and influences basic motivated behaviors (feeding, fight, flight, Fahrenheit, fricking)

hippocampus

formation of new memories and spatial navigation

amygdala

detecting and responding to threats; learning to associate experiences with emotional responses and processing emotional info; ESP fear

emotion

immediate, specific, negative or positive responses to environmental event/ internal thoughts

moods

vague; spread out long lasting emotional state that does not have an identifiable object or trigger

affect

describes emotions/moods, including both immediate emotional responses and longer lasting feelings

primary emotions

evolutionarily adaptive emotions that are shared across cultures and associated with physical states

secondary emotions

blends of primary emotions

james lange theory

emotions result from physiological reactions in the body

canon bard theory

info from an emotion producing stimulus is initially processed in subcortical regions of brain, which then send info separately to the cortex and body

two factor theory

emotion is influenced by cognitive label we apply to explain the physiological change we experience

positive reappraisal

change your perspective on an event to view it in a more neutral or positive way, helping to reduce negative emotional responses

classical conditioning

type of learning response in which a neutral stimulus becomes a meaningful signal that an important event is about to occur

unconditional stimulus

stimulus that elicits an innate response

unconditioned response

response that doesn’t have to be learned

conditioned stimulus

stimulus thaat elicits response only after learning has taken place

conditioned response

response that has been learned

phobia

aquired fear that is exaggerated in comparison to real threat of object/situation

counter conditioning

use of classical conditioning to replace an undesirable response with a more desirable one