Deck 12: Essay

Question 1

What is the function of the amygdala in the experience of emotion?

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Question 2

What are the effects of amygdala lesions?

Answer 2

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Question 3

What are the effects of hypothalamic stimulation on behavior? Is the behavior context dependent?

Answer 3

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Question 4

Compare and contrast regulatory and nonregulatory behaviors.List some specific examples of each.

Question 5

Compare and contrast the role of the orbital prefrontal cortex and the pyriform cortex in smell perception.

Question 6

List the symptoms of Klüver-Bucy syndrome.

Question 7

What is the somatic marker hypothesis? What evidence supports this hypothesis?

Question 8

What is the function of the medial forebrain bundle in motivated behaviors?

Question 9

Describe the structure of the olfactory system.Which types of neurons are involved in smell perception and what roles do they play? To which brain regions to these signals get relayed?

Question 10

Define innate releasing mechanism and give a specific example.

Question 11

List the hormones (and their functions)that are produced by the anterior pituitary gland.

Question 12

What is the concept of preparedness? Give a specific example of preparedness.

Question 13

List the effects of sensory deprivation in Hebb's experiment with college students.

Question 14

What is a homeostatic mechanism?

Question 15

What are the effects of dorsolateral frontal-cortex lesions on motivated behavior in humans?

Question 16

Describe learned taste aversion.How is learned taste aversion related to preparedness?

Question 17

Describe the role of the hypothalamus in initiating and stopping eating.

Question 18

What neural structures are part of the circuit of Papez? What roles do these structures play in emotion?

Question 19

What is evolutionary psychology? How does evolutionary psychology explain the existence of behaviors that seem maladaptive,such as homicide?

Question 20

Describe the gustatory pathway from the taste receptors to the primary gustatory cortex.

Question 21

What brain circuit(s)is (are)involved in creating the reward system and our experience of pleasure?

Question 22

How does the hypothalamus influence sexual behavior?

Question 23

Differentiate between the activating versus organizing effects of sex hormones.

Question 24

Differentiate between osmotic and hypovolemic thirst.

Question 25

How do lesions to the amygdala and orbital prefrontal cortex influence eating behavior?

Question 26

What is a frontal lobotomy? What effects did this surgical procedure have on behavior?

Question 27

Differentiate between aphagia and hyperphagia.Which regions of the brain need to be lesioned to cause aphagia and hyperphagia?

Question 28

List the three types of compounds produced by the digestive system.

Question 29

Differentiate between generalized anxiety disorder,panic disorder,and phobias.