Biological Basis of Behavior Flashcards
Huntington Disease
motor and affective disturbances, early symptoms are mental changes (irritability, anhedonia)
associated with decreased amounts of GABA
Overjustification
occurs when people are reinforced for behaviors they would normally do without reinforcement. when reinforcement is taken away, there is a decrease in the behavior.
Broca’s area
Broken speech, difficulty with fluency located in the left frontal lobe
Wernick’s area
difficulties with speech comprehension and located in the temporal lobes.
hypnogogic
hallucinations that occur when falling asleep
hypnopompic
hallucinations that occur as a person awakes.
Gertsmann Syndrome
involves lesions of the dominant parietal lobe and results in the symptoms of agraphia, acalculia, right-left disorientation, finger agnosia.
Munchausen’s Syndrome
factitious disorder
Ganser’s Syndrome
Type of factitious disorder that involves giving slightly wrong answers to questions indicating they could have given the correct answers.
Kluver-Bucy Syndrome
Typically involves agnosia’s with symptoms of placidity, apathy, hypersexuality
Kluver-Bucy Syndrome
Typically involves agnosia’s with symptoms of placidity, apathy, hypersexuality
Lazaras’ Theory
thought precede emotion or physioloical arousal.
THOUGHT –> Emotion/Phyiscal arousal
Cannon-Bard Theory
physiological and emotional arousal experienced at the same time.
Complex Partial Seizure Disorder
usually produced by an aura and results in aimless behavior, lip smacking, known to originate in the temporal lobe.
Petit Mal Seizures
Usually occurs in children beginning before age 5.
Absence seizures
Originates in the thalamus.
