Exam 9: Emotion

The perception of which of these emotions is impaired following damage to the amygdala?

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?

One of the two pathways of the amygdala is known as the "low road." This pathway can be characterized as ________ and involves a ________.

Which of the following is true about the role of the amygdala in explicit emotional learning?

Patient S.P. ,who had bilateral damage to the amygdala,participated in a study involving the pairing of a blue square with an electric shock.S.P.'s skin conductance response (SCR)and verbal report indicated that

A common conditioned stimulus (CS)in fear-conditioning experiments is an electric shock.

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

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

A rat's performance on the Morris water maze,a test of spatial ability and memory,will be affected in what way by a lesion to the amygdala?

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

The amygdala responds to fearful facial expressions

What is an implicit measure? Describe a study covered in your text or in class that investigated cognition using both implicit and explicit measures.

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.

In some of the fear-conditioning experiments described in your text,simple shapes like a blue square are used as the conditioned stimulus (CS).

Paul Ekman argued that the perception of facial expressions of emotion is highly relative across cultures.

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

Patient S.M. ,who had damage to the amygdala,had difficulty recognizing sadness in the expressions of other people.

Fear conditioning is a more specific instance of

Neuroimaging of the perception of facial expression suggests that

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