Deck 17: Emotion

Question 1

How does the administration of propranolol (a "beta blocker" drug) influence how people react to and remember an emotional story?

Answer 1

not answered

Question 2

Damage to which nucleus of the amygdala will disrupt fear conditioning?

Answer 2

Lateral nucleus

Question 3

Anhedonia is associated with which disorder?

A)Post-traumatic stress disorder
B)Major depressive disorder
C)Generalized anxiety disorder

Answer 3

B

Question 4

What is the difference between conditioned fear and avoidance learning?

Question 5

Describe the implicit association test (IAT). What is it thought to measure?

Question 6

Name some good and bad aspects of emotion regulation.

Question 7

What process is occurring if a rodent learns to avoid an area of a cage due to receiving a footshock, but later receives no shock and slowly begins to return to that area?

Question 8

In the classic fear-conditioning paradigm in rats, a footshock is paired with a tone. In this paradigm, the footshock serves as the _____ stimulus and the tone the _____ stimulus. The animal's behavioral reaction to the footshock is the _____ response.

Question 9

According to Davidson and colleagues, the left PFC is associated with _____ behavior, and the right with _____ behavior. Following from this, they associate elevated activity in which hemisphere of the PFC with positive emotion?

Question 10

Contrast the roles of areas IL and PL in the frontal cortex of the rat during fear conditioning vs. extinction.

Question 11

What is fear extinction? How is it accomplished?

Question 12

What neural changes accompany the meditation-related improvement of performance on the attentional blink task?

A)An increase in gamma-band power in the EEG
B)A decrease in gamma-band power in the EEG
C)An increase in the P3b component of the ERP
D)A decrease in the P3b component of the ERP

Question 13

Describe two broad theories of what "emotion" is. (Hint, one is biological/evolutionary, the other psychological.)

Question 14

Describe some evidence indicating that the principle function of the amygdala is vigilance.

Question 15

What evidence is there that the amygdala is involved in emotional appraisal in addition to emotional memory formation?

Question 16

What role does the vmPFC play in fear extinction?

Question 17

Failures of emotional control have been linked to which of the following disorders? (Check all that apply.)

A)Post-traumatic stress disorder
B)Major depressive disorder
C)Generalized anxiety disorder

Question 18

What causes Klüver-Bucy syndrome? Name three symptoms associated with this disorder.

Question 19

Release of what neurotransmitter has been associated with the amygdalar influence on long-term memory formation?

Question 20

The circuit processing conditioned fear includes the lateral nucleus (LA) projecting to the _____ nucleus, while the circuit processing avoidance learning includes the LA projecting to the _____ nucleus.

Question 21

Why might damage to the left frontal cortex lead to an increase in depression?

Question 22

What evidence is there that the amygdala may not be necessary for the conscious experience of emotion?