Exam 10: Emotion

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

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

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

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 the different brain areas involved in emotion. What role does the amygdala play in these systems? How does it differ from the role of other brain areas?

The insula is MOST involved in which of the following?

Neuroimaging of the perception of facial expression suggests that

Julian 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 due entirely to the fact that Julian notices his physiological response?

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

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.

The amygdala responds to fearful facial expressions

A double dissociation has been demonstrated between people with damage to the ________, who show impairment in the explicit or declarative aspects of fear conditioning, and people with damage to the ________, who show impairment in the implicit or nondeclarative aspects of fear conditioning.

Klüver-Bucy syndrome is associated with damage to which brain structure or region?

EEG studies have found that those with more ________ activity are better able to suppress negative emotion voluntarily.

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

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

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.

Which of the following is a way in which the amygdala interacts with hippocampus-dependent memories?

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.

In one conceptualization of emotions (Davidson et al. 1990), some emotional states such as happiness and surprise create a tendency to ________, whereas other emotional states such as fear and disgust create a tendency to ________.