Deck 11: Feelings

Question 1

Drug addiction and alcohol addiction typically involves a continually-incurring cycle of:

A) Drug abuse, Depression, Craving, and Withdrawal
B) Craving, Bipolar Disorder, Drug Abuse, and Bingeing
C) Intoxication, Bingeing, Withdrawal, and Craving
D) None of the above

Answer 1

C

Question 2

Bipolar disorder, also referred to as manic-depressive disorder, is associated with large shifts in mood. The brain areas implicated in Bipolar Disorder include:

A) The Fusiform Face area and the amygdala
B) The Prefrontal Cortex and the hippocampus
C) The hippocampus and the parietal lobe
D) The amygdala and the Prefrontal Cortex.

Answer 2

The amygdala and the Prefrontal Cortex.

Question 3

Which of the following is NOT a region in the subcortical limbic system?

A) Amygdala
B) Basal Ganglia
C) Periaqueductal Grey region
D) Cerebellum

Answer 3

D

Question 4

Neuroimaging studies of human emotions such as fear, sadness, and happiness have provided evidence that:

A) Specific individual emotions such as fear, sadness, and happiness show a one-to-one mapping with specific regions in the brain
B) Specific individual emotions such as fear, sadness, and happiness do not show a one-to-one mapping with specific regions in the brain
C) Specific emotions such as fear and happiness show a one-to-one mapping with specific regions in the brain but emotions such as sadness or anxiety do not
D) None of the above

Question 5

Emotional contagion refers to:

A) The fact that some emotions are not well understood
B) A phenomenon where people experience an automatic emotional response to a given emotional expression in another person
C) A rare condition present in some individuals
D) A skill that develop slowly throughout life

Question 6

The reason we are more apt to remember our wedding day or Senior Prom than any other given day in our past is theorized to be due to:

A) The influence of the cerebellum in emotional memories
B) The activation of the limbic system in storing and consolidating emotional memories
C) The hippocampus and the brainstem co-activating while storing emotional memories
D) The activation of the prefrontal cortex with the cerebellum in memory formation

Question 7

Describe how emotions can be characterized as discrete or continuous.

Question 8

'Cognitive reappraisal' is a term used to describe

A) Deciding if a situation or event is good for you or bad for you
B) Changing one's view of a given situation, typically to help down-regulate negative emotion
C) Creating a schema for coping with angry people
D) None of the above

Question 9

Post-traumatic Stress Disorder is:

A) Limited to individuals who serve in our armed forces
B) Found in children as well as in adults
C) Have aftereffects of traumatic stress that disappear over time
D) Increased in individuals over the age of 70

Question 10

Brain areas involved in decoding emotional facial expressions include:

A) The amygdala, the fusiform face area, and areas in visual cortex
B) The basal ganglia, the cerebellum, and the brainstem
C) The parietal lobe, the amygdala, and the pons
D) The amygdala, the prefrontal cortex, and area MT in visual cortex

Question 11

Two differing theories about human emotions hold that emotions can be categorized as:

A) Continuous or involuntary events
B) Continuous or discrete
C) Cortical or subcortical
D) Brain-based or body-based