Deck 20: Extension: A - Emotion and the Social Brain

Question 1

Which of the following was NOT part of the original Klüver - Bucy syndrome?

A) sham rage
B) hypermetamorphosis
C) visual agnosia
D) increased sexual behavior

Answer 1

sham rage

Question 2

Our ability to use information that is outside awareness to guide our behaviors is known as:

A) selective attention.
B) gist.
C) unconscious inference.
D) unconscious deduction.

Answer 2

unconscious inference.

Question 3

When evaluating a patient who expresses catastrophic reactions to situations, you would expect to find damage to the:

A) right hemisphere.
B) left hemisphere.
C) basal ganglia.
D) reticular formation.

Answer 3

left hemisphere.

Question 4

The observation that laboratory - bred and - reared rats show fear responses when exposed to the odor of fox urine is evidence for:

A) the high emotionality of laboratory rats.
B) a heritable genetic component to emotional behavior.
C) the ability of rats to rapidly learn stimulus-response associations.
D) the need to keep foxes out of research laboratories.

Question 5

Results from the earliest experiments studying the neural bases of emotion supported an important role for the:

A) thalamus and hypothalamus in the expression of emotion.
B) idea that emotional expression is subject to evolution just like other traits.
C) existence of a limbic lobe where emotion is experienced.
D) idea that the frontal lobes participate in emotional control.

Question 6

A key aspect of LeDoux's theory of emotions is that over the course of evolution, emotional and cognitive processes have become increasingly:

A) segregated.
B) identical.
C) interrelated.
D) irrelevant to each other.

Question 7

The flehmen response seen in some species is associated with the forcing of stimuli into contact with:

A) Jacobson's organ.
B) the taste buds.
C) the amygdala.
D) pheromones.

Question 8

A normal subject would show a left - ear advantage when listening to:

A) the sounds of a crying baby.
B) a narrated fairy tale.
C) Morse code.
D) the sounds of a crying baby, a narrated fairy tale, and Morse code.

Question 9

A key component of the emotion - processing pathway connecting the sensory - association cortex with the hypothalamus is the:

A) hippocampus.
B) insula.
C) amygdala.
D) dorsomedial thalamic nucleus.

Question 10

Attaching affective (emotional) qualities to experiences and memories is the role of the:

A) basal ganglia.
B) limbic system.
C) dopamine system.
D) prefrontal cortex.

Question 11

Which of the following symptoms was observed in the person suffering from Klüver - Bucy syndrome who was studied by Marlowe and colleagues?

A) flat affect
B) hyperexcitability
C) aphasia
D) alexia

Question 12

The sight of a scowling human face would be MOST likely to lead to the greatest immediate increase in neural activity in the:

A) left amygdala.
B) right amygdala.
C) left caudate nucleus.
D) right caudate nucleus.

Question 13

The observation that people with spinal injuries report reduced experiences of emotion has been taken to support the:

A) Cannon-Bard theory.
B) cognitive-emotional interaction theory.
C) left-hemisphere interpreter theory.
D) somatic marker hypothesis.

Question 14

The important book The Expression of Emotions in Man and Animals was written by:

A) Walter Cannon.
B) Charles Darwin.
C) Philip Bard.
D) Paul Bucy.

Question 15

The first major theory in the neurology of emotions was that of:

A) Klüver and Bucy.
B) Hess.
C) Papez.
D) Olds.

Question 16

The somatic marker hypothesis stresses the importance of emotional expression in:

A) reasoning processes.
B) habit learning.
C) fear conditioning.
D) reflex formation.

Question 17

The psychological construct that describes our conscious, subjective feelings about a situation is:

A) cognition.
B) mood.
C) effect.
D) affect.

Question 18

The Klüver - Bucy syndrome appears only following bilateral damage to the:

A) inferior temporal cortex, excluding the amygdala.
B) inferior temporal cortex, including the amygdala.
C) hypothalamus, including the rage-suppression centers.
D) medial temporal lobes.

Question 19

Learning responses that minimize the possibility of regrettable actions is associated with increased activity in the:

A) dorsolateral prefrontal cortex and cingulate gyrus.
B) orbitofrontal cortex and cingulate gyrus.
C) amygdala and dorsolateral prefrontal cortex.
D) orbitofrontal cortex and amygdala.

Question 20

The person who first performed frontal lobotomies in humans was:

A) Carlyle Jacobsen.
B) Paul Bucy.
C) Egas Moniz.
D) Philip Bard.

Question 21

The frontoparietal mirror neuron network has been proposed by Uddin and colleagues to play an important role in the:

A) ability to distinguish between animate and inanimate objects.
B) ability to understand the intentions of others in terms of one's own sense of self.
C) tendency to see faces in nonliving objects such as cloud formations.
D) synchronization, or mirroring, of neural activity between the left and right hemispheres.
Answer Key

Question 22

Findings from primate studies that demonstrate changes in emotional processing stemming from frontal lobe damage also lend support to frontal dysfunction in which of the following disorders?

A) depression
B) Korsakoff's syndrome
C) schizophrenia
D) Alzheimer's disease

Question 23

Lesions to which of the following brain regions are likely to impair a person's ability to use social context to guide behavior and to lead to inappropriate social interactions?

A) the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex
B) the ventromedial prefrontal cortex
C) the posterior parietal cortex
D) the premotor and supplementary motor cortex

Question 24

Reduced social interaction, loss of social dominance, and inappropriate social interactions are all a result of damage to the rhesus monkey's:

A) frontal cortex.
B) cerebellar cortex.
C) parietal cortex.
D) hippocampus.

Question 25

Affective states have been evaluated by neuropsychologists in which of the following aspects?

A) judgment of mood
B) comprehension of humor
C) judgment of facial expression
D) judgment of mood, comprehension of humor, and judgment of facial expression

Question 26

Your patient has suffered a stroke and now exhibits altered sexuality, unusually strong religiosity, and a production of very long letters to you. You suspect the damage has affected the:

A) frontal lobe.
B) temporal lobe.
C) parietal lobe.
D) ventromedial prefrontal cortex.

Question 27

Studies of social cognition have revealed which of the following with respect to amygdala function?

A) Bilateral amygdala lesions lead to deficits in processing negative emotions.
B) Right hemisphere unilateral amygdala lesions lead to deficits in processing positive emotions.
C) Left hemisphere unilateral amygdala lesions lead to deficits in processing positive emotions.
D) Bilateral amygdala lesions lead to deficits in processing positive emotions.

Question 28

Social cognition includes the human ability to be aware of whom we are (self - awareness). Imaging and patient data provide evidence that the _____ network mediates this function.

A) right temporal-occipital network
B) left temporal-occipital network
C) left frontoparietal network
D) right frontoparietal network

Question 29

Damage to Broca's area in the right hemisphere has been proposed by Ross to produce:

A) sensory aprosodia.
B) global aprosodia.
C) conduction aprosodia.
D) motor aprosodia.

Question 30

Based on Gainotti's study of the effects of unilateral cortical lesions on emotionality, a patient who shows pronounced indifference to emotional situations would be MOST likely also to show deficits on:

A) the paragraph recall test.
B) a verbal IQ test.
C) the line bisection test.
D) tests of right-left discrimination.