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The three major components of emotion are __________.
What is autonomic/physiological arousal, actions/behaviors, and cognition/subjective feelings?
Activation of the _________ system mobilizes energy and prepares the body for the flight or fight response
What is sympathetic nervous system?
People with emotional facial paresis are unable to do this.
What is make facial expressions when experiencing emotions?
_______ refers to stressors that can be good for our health and ______ refers to stressors that can be harmful.
What are eustress; distress?
The production of new cells; 1st stage in brain development
What is proliferation?
According to the ________ theory, we experience emotions AFTER autonomic arousal
What is James-Lange theory?
When someone is calm and relaxed, there is more activation of this system
What is parasympathetic nervous system?
This hemisphere is more dominant for interpreting and expressing emotion
What is right hemisphere?
The fast response to stress is mediated by the _____, while the slow response is mediated by the _______.
What are the sympathomedullary pathway (SAM) and HPA axis?
The moving of primitive neurons to their eventual location in the brain; guided by chemokines and radial glia.
What is migration?
Impulsiveness and poor decision making results from damage to the __________.
What is ventromedial prefrontal cortex?
Aggressive behavior in males is largely influenced by this hormone
What is testosterone?
Low turnover of this neurotransmitter has been observed in violent criminals and arsonists
What is serotonin?
The main stress hormone; high levels lead to impairment in immune system functioning and memory.
What is cortisol?
The process by which glia produce the insulating fatty sheaths that accelerate transmission in many vertebrate axons
What is myelination?
It's difficult to find a 'happiness center' in the brain because ____________. (not a 1 word answer)
What is there is a lot of variability with brain areas associated with emotions?
This part of the brain is important for learned fears
What is amygdala?
Overall, a large amount of data indicate that the amygdala is important for ________ on emotionally salient memories.
What is focusing attention?
This part of the brain is particularly vulnerable to stress and can result in memory problems.
What is hippocampus?
The formation of synapses.
What is synaptogenesis?
It's difficult to use serotonin levels to predict aggression because __________.
What is low serotonin levels have been associated with high aggression but also depression?
In addition to the amygdala and hypothalamus, this part of the brain is important for defensive behaviors.
What is the periaquaductal gray (PAG)?
The Behavioral Inhibition System for emotions has more activity in the _____ frontal and temporal lobes and the Behavioral Activation System has more activity in the _____ frontal and temporal lobes.
What is right hemisphere; left hemisphere?
These are 3 ways to cope with stress.
What are social support, exercise, relaxation training, biofeedback, and mediation, etc.?
Term for the process in which postsynaptic cells strengthen the synapses of some cells and weaken synapses with others due to activity and only the fittest survive.
What is Neural Darwinism?