Deck 7: Emotional Behaviours

Question 1

Emotions ______.

A) involve patterns of physiological responses
B) include subjective feelings but not behaviours
C) have no consequences for survival

Answer 1

A

Question 2

Which of the following is not associated with fear responses?

A) tears
B) dry mouth
C) diarrhoea

Answer 2

A

Question 3

James-Lange theory is characterised by the statement ______.

A) 'the man runs away because he is scared of the bear'
B) 'the man runs away and then realises he is scared of the bear'
C) 'the man is scared because he runs away from the bear'

Answer 3

C

Question 4

In Cannon-Bard theory, ______.

A) emotional responses precede the subjective feeling
B) emotional responses and subjective feelings are triggered at the same time
C) emotional responses follow the subjective feeling

Question 5

Cannon argued that James-Lange theory cannot be TRUE because ______.

A) damage to the spinal cord impairs emotional experience
B) we are not always aware of the emotional responses
C) stimulation of the peripheral response does not elicit an emotional feeling

Question 6

Which of the following theories proposes that emotions are characterised by specific patterns of emotional responses?

A) James-Lange Theory
B) Cannon-Bard Theory
C) Schachter-Singer Theory

Question 7

Injection of adrenaline to stimulate emotional responses ______.

A) induces a subjective emotion
B) strengthens the intensity of an existing subjective emotion
C) has no effect on emotional feelings

Question 8

According to the Schachter-Singer theory, ______.

A) cognitive context is sufficient to induce an emotional feeling
B) emotional responses label a situation as being emotional
C) the cognitive context labels emotional responses as being related to a particular emotion

Question 9

The Kluver-Bucy syndrome results from removal of the ______.

A) occipital lobe
B) temporal lobe
C) frontal lobe

Question 10

Lesions to which of the following areas does not disrupt fear conditioning in rats?

A) amygdala
B) auditory thalamus
C) auditory cortex

Question 11

The amygdala is involved in ______.

A) only fear memories
B) pavlovian memories
C) pavlovian and declarative memories

Question 12

Damage to the amygdala produces ______.

A) reduced fear
B) rage
C) risk taking

Question 13

The periacqueductal grey ______.

A) receives projections from the amygdala
B) is inhibited by amygdala activity
C) reliably produces freezing when stimulated

Question 14

The prefrontal cortex ______.

A) does not communicate with the amygdala
B) activates the amygdala
C) inhibits the amygdala

Question 15

The prefrontal cortex ______.

A) is specialised for the emotion of anger
B) is specialised for inhibiting fear
C) is involved in more than one emotion

Question 16

The condition in which patients cannot voluntarily move their facial muscles is called ______.

A) muscular facial paresis
B) volitional facial paresis
C) emotional facial paresis

Question 17

Emotional facial expressions have a biological basis because ______.

A) they are evident from birth
B) they are the same throughout life
C) they are learned equally by all people

Question 18

Why is it important to consider peripheral biological responses in the understanding of emotion?

Question 19

What role does the amygdala play in emotion?

Question 20

Discuss the importance of evolutionary and biological factors in emotional facial expressions.

Question 21

Critically evaluate the hypothesis that information is processed in a serial manner within the amygdala.

Question 22

What is the contribution of the medial prefrontal cortex to fear?