7. Psych and Modern Neuroscience

Question 1

If you lose feeling in your thumb but not the other parts of the radial nerve distribution, Freud suggested that this may be due to what kinds of illnesses?

Answer 1

Psychiatric illnesses

Question 2

Every personality has three components. Name them.

Answer 2

Id, ego, superego

Question 3

What is Id?

Answer 3

Primitive and child-like part of personality: raw impulses and drives; aggressive behavior

Question 4

What is ego?

Answer 4

Adult part of personality. Rational, non-emotional, intellectual

Question 5

What is superego?

Answer 5

Parent part of personality

Morality, conscience

Question 6

Behavior and emotions are influenced in the _______ mind.

Answer 6

Unconscious

Question 7

Alfred Alder developed what two concepts?

Answer 7

inferiority complex

birth order - ranking of siblings; 1st child is upset about having another child

Question 8

What is the collective unconscious

Answer 8

traditional or cultural issue that you acquire

Question 9

What is persona?

Answer 9

Set of external behaviors and appearances that you put out to give an identity (may not represent actual feelings, but what you want others to think)

Question 10

Social Learning Theory

Answer 10

Behavior is not determined by internal psychic events but by external environmental events

Question 11

Can childhood phobias be due to conditioned responses?

Answer 11

Yes

Question 12

What is operant conditioning

Answer 12

certain behaviors are reinforced and repeated with rewards or repetitive punishment

Question 13

What is systematic desensitization effective in treating? How do you do it?

Answer 13

Anxiety
Identify and think about something that makes you anxious, then train how to physically relax by turning off all motor input to muscles (anxiety cannot exist during physical relaxation)

Question 14

What is the therapy that is one of the most successful and easily applied forms of therapy?

Answer 14

Cognitive therapy

Question 15

What parts of the brain affect learning and memory?

Answer 15

amygdala and hippocampus

Question 16

Which part of the brain stores emotional memories?

Answer 16

amygdala

Question 17

In which disease states is the basal ganglia effected?

Answer 17

Huntington and parkinson’s

Question 18

What does the cerebellum do?

Answer 18

Maintains neuromusclar and mental coordination; tension, emotion, memory, language

Question 19

Where are the language areas of the brain? Describe them.

Answer 19

Left hemisphere
Broca’s area - frontal lobe, for speech formation
Wernicke’s area - parietal/temporal lobe, auditory comprehension

Question 20

What acts as the main gate that allows peripheral nervous system to enter the cortex

Answer 20

Reticular activating system and brainstem

Question 21

Where is serotonin found? Synthesized from? Can it cross BBB?

Answer 21

GI, midline raphe of brain
Synethesized from tryptophan
Cannot cross BBB

Question 22

What does histamine in the brain do?

Answer 22

Maintain wakefullness

Question 23

WHat does GABA do?

Answer 23

Inhibitory NT. Promotes sedation, anti-seizure, anti-tranquilzer