19.12 Psych: Introduction to cognition and emotion

Question 1

What proportion of R/L handed people have L dominant language?

Answer 1

R: 95%
L: 70%

Question 2

What is Luria’s brain behaviour theory?

Answer 2

There are three basic units of the CNS:

1. Arousal/muscle tone regulation (brainstem etc.)
2. Sensory information (posterior cortical)
3. Planing, executing, verifying behaviour (frontal, pre-frontal lobes)

Question 3

What is the essence of Luria’s principles of functional systems?

Answer 3

Brain operates in tandem, no one area is completely responsible for one thing

Question 4

What kind of behavioural state is emotion?

Answer 4

Inferred and subjective, a psychophysiological state

Question 5

What is Kluber-Bucy syndrome? How does it occur and what are symptoms?

Answer 5

Bilateral anterior temporal lobectomy, tameness or loss of fear

Question 6

What is amygdala dysfunction related to?

Answer 6

Depression and anxiety

Question 7

What is the orbitoprefrontal cortex important for? What do we see in this cortex in patients with disorders of affect?

Answer 7

Identification and expression of emotion

Reduced OFC volume in patients with e.g. depression

Question 8

What happens to the hippocampus in depression?

Why could this be the case?

Answer 8

Reduced hippocampal volume in depression

Links serotonin abnormalities and stress hypotheses

Question 9

What is the James Lange Theory about cognition and emotion?

Cannon Bard?

Answer 9

JL: Experience emotion in response to physiological changes

CB: Experience emotion without expressing it (e.g. spinal cord lesions)

Question 10

What did Lazarus mean by cognitive appraisal?

Answer 10

Cognitive processing is integral to emotional states and can influence the response