Exam 10: Emotion

A friend comes into your house and eats all the chocolates in your pantry. You come in and at first are very angry. Then you think to yourself, "That's actually better for me. Now I don't have to eat all those calories." What have you done?

The role of the amygdala in learning to respond to stimuli that have come to represent aversive events through fear conditioning is primarily implicit.

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.

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

Which statement best characterizes the insula's role in emotional processing?

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, in itself, would be expected to have the LEAST effect on individual differences in emotional processing of a particular stimulus?

Which of the following results best supports the notion that the amygdala modulates the consolidation of hippocampus-based memories?

Emotions are ________ responses to external or internal stimuli.

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

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

When someone is emotionally aroused, the hippocampus plays a modulatory role in strengthening the consolidation of amygdala-based memory.

Evidence from cognitive neuroscience suggests that the recognition of the six basic facial expressions of emotion is processed in the amygdala.

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

The Papez circuit includes the hypothalamus, anterior thalamus, cingulate gyrus, and hippocampus.

Which of the following would be MOST useful in establishing discrete categories of emotions?

A patient reports feeling intense sadness. Which of the following signs would indicate that this is true?

Emotional regulation refers to the processes that influence emotions in which of the following ways?

The role of the amygdala in emotion and memory has been studied using a form of classical conditioning known as fear conditioning.