Exam 10: Emotional Influences on Learning and Memory

A rat that is placed in a pool of water can learn to locate and climb onto a submerged platform in order to get out of the water.This is an example of:

Damage to the hippocampus:

During a state of arousal:

When compared to conditioned responses that do not involve emotion,conditioned emotional responses:

An excessive and irrational fear of an object,place,or situation is called:

Which of the following is true regarding the brain and emotion?

According to Seligman's research on learned helplessness,one way to help "immunize" people from becoming depressed would be to:

A classical conditioning explanation for PTSD suggests that the:

Depressed people are more likely to recall unpleasant memories than pleasant memories.This is an example of:

Which of the following is true regarding flashbulb memories?

Provide an example of conditioned avoidance in everyday life.

Describe how Seligman demonstrated learned helplessness in dogs.

Drugs that interfere with epinephrine appear to:

Suppose you have just learned that you lost your job,and you are feeling very angry at your boss.Discuss the role of the frontal lobes in your experience and expression of anger in this example.

Which of the following has been suggested as a mechanism by which the hippocampus affects fear learning in the amygdala?

Mood congruency demonstrates that emotion can influence which aspect of memory?

What is one reason flashbulb memories can contain inaccuracies?

Nonhuman animals have:

A problem for the two-factor theory of avoidance learning is that:

The psychological syndrome that can develop after a person is exposed to a horrific event is called: