Exam 10: Emotion

What is emotional regulation? Describe the different forms of regulation and the neural structures involved.

How might you investigate the assertion that basic facial expressions of emotion are universal, rather than being culturally relative? Describe an experiment that might inform this issue.

Which of the following structures of the limbic system is NOT involved in emotion?

Which of the following is NOT considered one of the six basic facial expressions representing emotional states?

Which of the following is NOT true of the amygdala?

Some theories of emotion employ a factor approach. In one conceptualization, the first factor is , or how pleasant or unpleasant the stimulus is, and the second factor is , or how intense the emotional response is.

Cunningham and colleagues 2004) suggested that although the amygdala plays a role in the automatic evaluation of social groups, controlled processing may implicate which of the following brain regions?

Describe a potential real-world scenario in which you might experience fear conditioning. What are the conditioned and unconditioned stimuli in your scenario?

In a fear-conditioning experiment, you find a person who shows a normal skin conductance response to a conditioned stimulus such as a blue square) but who does not consciously remember the pairing of the conditioned stimulus with the unconditioned stimulus such as a shock). This person may have damage to the

The mechanism through which the amygdala modulates hippocampus-based learning may be related to the observation that

Research on racial stereotypes conducted by Phelps and colleagues 2000) suggested that when European-American participants viewed pictures of unfamiliar African-American men, activity in the of these participants was correlated with the results of behavioral measures of racial beliefs and attitudes.

Which of the following is true regarding the amygdala and indirect evaluations of racial bias?

The is a small, almond-shaped structure in the medial temporal lobe, immediately adjacent to the anterior portion of the .

One theory of emotion and the brain from the mid 20th century implicated the hypothalamus, anterior thalamus, cingulate gyrus, and hippocampus. These structures were later named the circuit.

The amygdala consists of several subnuclei. During fear conditioning, information converges on the of the amygdala and from there projects to the .

John spots a snake in the forest. He immediately runs away from it and then notes that he is scared as he is running. Which of the following theories would suggest that his feeling of fear is entirely independent of him noticing his physiological response?

How do the hippocampus and amygdala interact in learning and memory? Under what conditions will the amygdala play a role in hippocampus-based learning? Under what conditions will it not?

Describe the brain areas involved in love. Is this brain activity similar to or different from that observed in other emotions? Provide evidence to support your view.

Lesions to the amygdala unconditioned responses to aversive events, the ability to acquire and express a conditioned response to neutral stimuli.

What are some functions of the amygdala in emotional processing? In your answer, describe two experiments that illustrate the conditions in which the amygdala does or does not) play a role.