Exam 10: Emotional Expression and Regulation

Amygdala lesions in monkeys appear to ___________ when the monkey is introduced into groups of monkeys with more threatening males.

Which of the following is an example of cognitive reappraisal?

________ is a disorder characterized by excessive fear of specific stimuli.

What is the importance of the relationship between the amygdala and hippocampus?

_________ conducted pioneering research a half century ago in which he identified universal facial expressions that could be understood across cultures.

Is fear useful?

Bonanno and colleagues refer to the ability to both enhance and suppress emotions as ________.

fMRI studies in healthy subjects indicate ___________ in response to pictures of fearful faces.

___________ coined the term, limbic system, referring to a proposed circuit of specific brain areas involved in emotional processing.

The work of ___________ introduced the technique of using precise, experimentally induced brain lesions to investigate the fundamental mechanisms of emotions.

In most mammalian species, ________ results in dramatically decreased levels of aggression.

Curt Richter suggested that "voodoo death" resulted from ______________.

Rats identified as having a bold, uninhibited temperament survived longer with cancerous tumors than rats with a more shy inhibited temperament.

The suggestion that feelings of emotion are only a by-product of reflexive bodily responses to stimuli is consistent with _________.

According to ________, different bodily reactions that occur in re?sponse to different stimuli lead to the experience of emotions.

Individuals with Williams syndrome have compromised ________ function.

Rats that displayed variable coping strategies to restraint stress had ________ than the consistent active or passive copers did.

Damasio's _____________ hypothesis states that physiological emotional responses serve an important role in guiding the brain's decision to carry out a particular behavior.

If a previously defeated hamster is placed in the cage with a smaller, nonaggressive male hamster, the previously defeated hamster will ________.

When a previously defeated hamster continues to exhibit submissive displays, this behavior is known as ________.