Exam 11: Emotion

A male mouse housed alone in a home cage will readily attack a male mouse placed into the home cage, but will not attack a female mouse. Which of the following is a key factor as to whether the resident male mouse decides to attack or not attack the strange male mouse?

The major components of an emotional response include

A rat experiences a shock paired with the sound of a bell. The animal now experiences fear, demonstrated by freezing behavior, when it hears a bell. The bell is the

Identify two species-typical forms of aggression and the hormones that modulate these behaviors.

The emotion of disgust involves activation of neurons within the

Based on the evidence cited in your text, which brain region would be considered as a key target for pharmacological modification to provide relief for a person suffering from overly intense emotional reactions?

A female mouse given daily injections of ________ for two weeks is not more likely than a placebo-treated female to fight with a strange female mouse.

According to the James-Lange theory of emotion, which of the following is most important for the subjective experience of an emotion?

Drugs that act as __________ for ____________ might help to reduce aggressive behavior.

Discuss the James-Lange theory of emotion and cite evidence that supports this theory.

The prominent physiologist ________ strongly criticized the James-Lange theory of emotion.

When presented with the moral dilemma of whether to physically push Person A onto a trolley track to stop a trolley car from killing 5 other people, individuals with damage to the ____________ will choose to push Person A and stop the trolley, demonstrating no moral dilemma with this choice.

Disgusting stimuli activate the activity of cells in the ________.

Darwin argued that the expression of emotion in humans

The ________ amygdaloid nucleus is the single most important part of the brain for the expression of emotional responses evolved by aversive stimuli.

Pure word deafness is produced by damage to the ________ cortex.

Electrical stimulation of the dorsal periaqueductal gray matter in the cat produces

The neurotransmitter serotonin typically ________ aggression.

In humans, bilateral lesioning of the amygdala results in

Alzheimer's disease patients who show degeneration of the ________ are more likely to forget emotionally traumatic events such as the Kobe earthquake in 1995.