6C Theories of Emotion

What is the septal nuclei and where isit?

It is the pleasure zone and is located within the limbic system

The Ventral prefrontal cortex is associated with _____, while the dorsal prefrontal cortex is associated with ___/.

Ventral: Connects with regions of the brain responsible for experiencing emotion

Dorsal: Attention and cognition

According to the Schachter-Singer theory you can have ____ emotions with ____ physiological cue

Multiple, the same

Schachter singer says that we experience emotion as a result of___.

Interpreting our physiological response and our environment

What is social facilitation?

People tend to perform better on simple tasks when in the presence of others

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Peer group is fully _____ selected

Self

Primary vs Secondary Group

Primary: Super close to, last a long time

Secondary: kind of know them doesn't last

What is an organization?

An entity set up to achieve specific goals

In an experiment what shout we know about p-values? How does this effect how we look at data

A p-value< 0.05 is statistically SIGNIFICANT .

If they don’t have a value less than 0.05, that means any result from that variable doesn't matter and we don’t take it into account for our conclusion

What are line pars in a graph? What if they overlap between groups?

Confidence interval is basically the region we're ’re 95% sure the true value is.

If they overlap the are NOT SIGNIFICANT fot a WHOLE POPULATION

The most frequent score/value is the

Mode

If the mean is LESS than the median, we will have a ____ skew.

Left

What is variability in data related to? If its high how does it relate

Standard deviation which is the average spread of data.

It is directly related to variability, as it is wider there is more variability

What is a primary appraisal vs a secondary appraisal?

Primary: Answers if the event is a threat

Secondary: Answers if we have the resources to cope with the event

What is long term potentiation

A long-lasting strengthening of synapses between neurons after repeated stimulation.

What can effect brain size?

Neural plasticity because changes in neural connections can cause certain brain regions to increase in size or volume,

What is encoding specificity?

Memory is most effective when the conditions at retrieval match the conditions at encoding.

For the primacy/ recency effect to occur what must happen?

recall needs to take place immediately after encoding, when the final items are still held in short-term memory.

What is general adaptation syndrome?

Stress becomes debilitating if continuous