Deck 20: Extension: C - Emotion and the Social Brain

Question 1

Which is more characteristic of right - hemisphere damage than of left - hemisphere damage?

A) judgment of propositional affect
B) comprehension of verbal humor
C) matching emotional expressions
D) judgment of emotional expressions

Answer 1

comprehension of verbal humor

Question 2

With respect to cognitive control of emotions either up or down regulation, which of the following brain regions have been implicated?

A) the prefrontal cortex and anterior cingulate
B) the hypothalamus and amygdala
C) the medial thalamus and anterior cingulate
D) the hippocampus and prefrontal cortex
Answer Key

Answer 2

the prefrontal cortex and anterior cingulate

Question 3

According to Ross, which type of aprosodia is marked by deficits in interpreting the emotional components of language?

A) sensory
B) conduction
C) mixed transcortical
D) anomic

Answer 3

sensory

Question 4

Philip Bard, working with animals with selective brain damage, emphasized the importance of the _____ in the production of emotional responses.

A) limbic lobe
B) frontal lobe
C) diencephalon
D) orbitofrontal cortex

Question 5

Which is most likely to be seen following left - hemisphere damage in humans?

A) increased spontaneous speech
B) impaired mimicry of emotional states
C) catastrophic reactions
D) facial expressions of emotion

Question 6

A bilateral anterior temporal lobectomy in monkeys (and in at least one human case) produces a syndrome that includes _____.

A) amnesia
B) lack of sexual desire
C) tameness
D) aggression

Question 7

Which is NOT a principal behavioral component that must be included in any substantive contemporary theory of emotion?

A) self-reported cognition
B) stereotypical motor behavior
C) unconscious behavior
D) physiology

Question 8

Hypergraphia, hypermoralism, and sense of personal destiny are all characteristics of _____.

A) frontal lobe lesions
B) the "temporal lobe" personality
C) the catastrophic reaction of left-hemisphere damage
D) paranoid schizophrenia

Question 9

Damasio's somatic marker hypothesis of emotion is strongly influenced by the early psychologist _____.

A) William James
B) Wilhelm Wundt
C) Sigmund Freud
D) Hermann Ebbinghaus

Question 10

According to contemporary views, to add one structure to the original idea of Papez, which brain structure should be included in the "limbic system"?

A) the cingulate cortex
B) the amygdala
C) the pineal gland
D) the mammillary nucleus

Question 11

Damage to _____ in the _____ hemisphere has been proposed to produce motor aprosodia.

A) Broca's area; left
B) the frontal orbital cortex; right
C) Broca's area; right
D) the temporal lobe; left

Question 12

In nonhuman primates who have had frontal lobe lesions, which is NOT an identified behavioral change?

A) loss of social dominance
B) increased vocalization
C) altered social preference
D) reduced affect

Question 13

The _____ response is associated with bringing stimuli into contact with _____.

A) sham rage; the hypothalamus
B) flehmen; the amygdala
C) flehmen; Jacobson's organ
D) stress; the pituitary gland

Question 14

According to LeDoux (2000), in an emotionally arousing situation, the amygdala initiates each of the following reactions EXCEPT _____.

A) stress hormone release
B) emotional behavior
C) autonomic activation
D) pain sensitization

Question 15

The _____ neural network in the frontal lobe is NOT a necessary component of self - awareness.

A) right frontoparietal
B) cortical midline
C) anterior cingulate
D) insula