Brain lobes
Vision is a function of which lobe?
Occipital
What is selective attention?
When you pay attention to something over something else (or some version of this)
What is emotion?
Emotions are physical and psychological changes that influence your behaviour in response to a feeling or situation.
What is eustress?
Good stress that helps you focus
What is the James Lang theory?
The theory that our experience of emotion is our awareness of our physiological responses to emotion-arousing stimuli.
What is a function of the occipital lobe?
Hearing, memory, understanding, language
What is divided attention?
When you pay attention to multiple things
What is behaviour?
Behaviour is the way in which a person or animal responds to a stimulus or situation.
What is distress?
Bad stress that comes from too much or too little stimulation
What is the Cannon-Bard theory?
Once we become aware of the event (Lolita sees the spider), this information triggers both physiological arousal (trembling) and the subjective experience (fear) at the same time.
Which lobe has these functions: executive functions, thinking planning, organising and problem solving, emotions and behavioural control, personality
Frontal lobe
What are the 3 stages of memory?
encoding - storage - retrieval
What are the 3 stages of an emotional response?
trigger - emotion - response
What type of stress is experienced as an immediate perceived threat, either physical, emotional or psychological.
Acute
What is Schachter's two-factor theory?
Schachter added an element known as cognitive appraisal. This is a label that is based on the person’s interpretation of the situation.
à The person’s emotional response is dependent on the label they use. E.g. one person may see spiders as dangerous, whereas another person might not.
What is a function of the parietal lobe?
perception, making sense of the world, arithmetic, spelling
What do interneurons do?
Act as a ‘middle man’ for the sensory and motor neurons. Either transmits the sensory neuron signals to the brain for processing or directly to the motor neurons (remember reflex arcs).
What is social awareness?
emotional/accurate self awareness, self confidence
Is the following brain stress signalling for acute or chronic stress?
Stress induces the hypothalamus to produce Corticotropin-releasing hormone (CRH).
A hormone that stimulates both the synthesis and the secretion of adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH) in the corticotropin-producing cells (corticotrophs) of the anterior pituitary gland.
This triggers the adrenal gland to either produce cortisol or adrenaline.
This hormone is then sent to the brain.
We respond to the stress.
Acute
What is Lazarus's theory?
Lazarus’ theory is similar to Schacter’s theory in that a person uses appraisal to decide if the situation is dangerous or not.
Lazarus’ has two stages of appraisal
1.PRIMARY APPRAISAL: Is the stimulus a challenge or a threat? If it’s a threat,
2.SECONDARY APPRAISAL: is it a low threat or a high threat?
A person’s interpretation of the stimulus will dictate their physiological response.
Which small part of the brain (not a lobe) controls emotion?
Amygdala
What is the difference between the CNS and PNS?
CNS = •Controls the body by processing and responding to sensory input from the peripheral nervous system.
PNS = Detect sensory information through receptors in their dendrites. Transmit the information to interneurons
What is the difference between self management and relationship management?
self management - self control, adaptability, initiative
relationship management - influence, conflict management, building bonds
tension headaches and higher risk of type 2 diabetes is linked to which type of stress?
chronic
What is the difference between a mental disorder and a mental illness?
A mental disorder is a psychological state characterised by emotional difficulties that lead to emotional or behavioural impairment or disability serious enough to require psychiatric intervention.
Mental illness an be diagnosed by a mental health professional by determining if the combination of symptoms and severity of the symptoms over time meet certain criteria.