TB4 Lecture 1; Emotion and the Brain quiz

1. What does the response from an eye-blink component of startle response measure show?

Related to valence, there is more eye-blink when feeling fear, and less with happiness. Much faster than SCR.
Related to valence, there is less eye-blink when feeling fear, and more with happiness. Much slower than SCR.
Related to valence, there is more eye-blink when feeling fear, and less with happiness. Much slower than SCR.
Related to valence, there is less eye-blink when feeling fear, and more with happiness. Much faster than SCR.

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Animals lack self awareness, therefore we will never truly understand basic social or emotional responses
Other emotions are less well understood, with mixed fMRI results and no as of yet brain lesion pps with specfic damage affecting these emotions. Social emotions e.g pride are currently under research scrutiny
Other basic and social emotions have sufficient animal models but no human fMRI research evidence as of yet

The same neurons will fire when you think about how something would feel and how it feels
People score lower on the Iowa gambling task if they have less temporal lobe
People experience bodily feelings that guide their decisions based on the anticipated pain/pleasure of the outcome.
People score lower on the Iowa gambling task if they have a larger temporal lobe

There is a deterministic relaish between bodily reactions+emotions. Stimuli cause a direct bodily response which in turn creates an emotional experience. There is no emotion without bodily reaction.
There is a deterministic relaish between bodily reactions+emotions. Stimuli cause an emotional response which in turn creates a bodily reaction. There are no bodily reactions without emotion.
There is an interactive relationship between bodily reactions+emotions. Emotions can cause a bodily reaction which causes a physiological response, and vice versa.
Emotions are a psychological percept that are not linked to the bodies responses to external stimuli.

Abnormal ratings of fear emotions, some other emotions (e.g anger) were not normal either but fear the worst affected
Patient SM could not categorise anger
The emotions of fear, disgust and anger produced abnormal rating
Patient SM could not categorise fear