Exam 10: Emotion

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

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

Emotions are responses to external or internal stimuli.

Are there hemispheric differences in emotional regulation? Describe evidence to support your answer.

You conduct an experiment in which you expose a rat repeatedly to a 440 Hz tone and an electric shock. After a few trials, the rat begins to show signs of fear in response to the tone. In this paradigm, the electric shock is the while the tone is the .

John 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 directs multiple coordinated cognitive subprograms?

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

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

John 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 dependent on language and culture?

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.

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

John 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 dependent on parallel systems for emotional responses and their conscious identification?

Neuroimaging of the perception of facial expression suggests that

Describe the role of the insula in emotion.

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

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

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

The implicit association test IAT) measures the degree to which social groups are automatically associated with positive and negative evaluations. Which of the following is FALSE regarding this test?

Fear conditioning is a more specific instance of