Limbic system

A group of interconnected brain structures involved in emotion and emotional responses.

The limbic system is a group of brain structures involved in emotion. In Eysenck’s explanation, people high in neuroticism have a highly reactive nervous system: stress quickly activates the ANS and limbic system, and their activity decreases slowly after the stress has gone.

A group of brain structures involved in emotion and memory.

Explain adolescent behaviour using the interaction between the limbic system and the prefrontal cortex, rather than simply saying that the brain is immature.

Link the limbic system to the emotional content of dreams, not to the process of synthesis.

A group of interconnected brain structures involved in emotion; its activation helps explain the emotional content of dreams.

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OCR GCSE Psychology · J203

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