Important Neurotransmitters
What is dopamine?
The lobe located in the cerebrum that controls hearing.
What is the temporal lobe?
Area located inside the cerebrum, controls emotions and when we make decisions based off emotions.
What is the limbic system?
The term that means what we see is exactly what is in the world.
What is phenomenal absolutism?
Names of the psychologists who formed the theory of emotion that states that physiology comes first; physical leads to emotional.
Who are James & Lange?
Located in the brain, inhibitory effect, function is sleeping, eating, mood, pain, and depression.
What is serotonin?
The lobe located in the cerebrum that controls vision.
What is the occipital lobe?
The part of the limbic system that affects emotions and motivation.
What is the hypothalamus?
Illusions with our eyes; perceptions that relate in an unusual way to the external world.
What is an optical illusion?
The names of the psychologists who formed the theory of emotion that states that physiological arousal happens first and then it leads to emotional labeling.
Who are Schacter & Singer?
Located in the brain and spinal cord, primarily inhibitory effect (except in the hippocampus), functions are pain suppression, pleasurable feelings, appetites, and placebos.
What is endorphins?
The lobe in the cerebrum responsible for cognition and judgement.
What is the frontal lobe?
The part of the limbic system that processes visual and olfactory information.
What is the thalamus?
The process of creating an internal representation of the external world.
What is perception?
The names of the psychologists who formed the theory of emotion that states that physiology and cognition arise simultaneously in the limbic system.
Who are Cannon & Baird?
Located in the peripheral nerves, especially somatic and parasympathetic, primarily excitatory effect, functions for coordinated motor activities and the heart.
What is acetylcholine?
The part of the brain that controls automatic body functions such as breathing or heart beating.
What is the brain stem?
The two areas in the limbic system that balance anger and passivity.
What are the septum and amygdala?
The receiving and coding of stimulus energy from the outside.
The theory that states facial movements and expressions and influence attitude and emotional experience.
What is the facial feedback hypothesis?
The chemicals that carry messages across the synapse.
The two areas of the brain responsible for articulating and interpreting language.
What is Wernicke's area and Broca's area?
The procedure that severs connections to and from the prefrontal cortex that results in a drastic change in motivation and personality.
What is a prefrontal lobotomy?
The three steps of the multidimensional process of perception that can be described as sensation.
What is transduction, coding, and processing?
The idea that a primary affect will be opposed with a different emotion to try to bring someone back to their "baseline emotion."
What is the opponent process?