Feelings
Semantic, conscious
Emotions
Feel in the body
Emotional states imply…
Subjective experience
Physiological changes
Behavior - Facial gestures
Goal of emotion
React adaptively to internal and external stimuli
“emotionally competent stimuli” - naturally significant (e.g painful or delicious)
Behaviour response neuronal pathway
Somatic motor nerve->skeletal muscle->behaviour
Autonomic activity (e.g rise in blood pressure)
Autonomic nerve -> smooth or cardiac muscle (also endocrine gland)->autonomic activity
Hormonal activity
pituitary->blood vessel->endocrine gland->hormone