BIOLOGICAL BASES OF BEHAVIOR
BIOLOGICAL PSYCHOLOGY
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Participants who received adrenaline showed significantly more sympathetic arousal that the placebo subjects
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Misinformed pp’s felt the happiest Ignorant pp’s came in second
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Strong association between pattern of REMs and content of dreams:
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participants experiment of emotional intensity correlated well with average ratings of emotional valence
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Detailed explanation-1: -RESULTS OF CANLI ET AL “Amygdala activation was significantly, bilaterally correlated with higher ratings of individually experienced emotional intensity . This represents first evidence that amygdala activation is related to the subjective sense of emotional intensity.
Detailed explanation-2: -The correlation between participant’s intensity rating and valence was-0.66. The correlation between participants’ intensity rating and arousal was 0.68. Therefore, participants’ ratings of emotional intensity reflected well the valence and arousal characteristics of the stimuli.
Detailed explanation-3: -Valence, when discussing emotions, refers to the attractiveness (positive valence) or aversiveness (negative valence) of an event, object or situation.
Detailed explanation-4: -The study used an fMRI machine (functional magnetic resonance imaging) which detects changes in blood flow in the brain to illustrate how the brain works during different tasks.