Biopsychology of Emotion, Stress & Health

Question 1

What is Eustress?

Answer 1

stress that improves health and function

Question 2

Where is the limbic system?

Answer 2

It rings the thalamus

Question 3

What is the James Lange Theory?

Answer 3

An emotional stimuli is interpreted by the cortex which triggers an experience depending on the feedback from the ANS and somatic nervous system

Question 4

What is the Cannon-Bard Theory?

Answer 4

Emotional stimuli have two independent excitatory effects

Question 5

Lesions to which area of the brain prevent fear conditioning?

Answer 5

bilateral lesions to the medial geniculate nucleus

Question 6

Which part of the brain is involved in contextual fear?

Answer 6

the hippocampus

Question 7

Why is the hippocampus thought to be involved with contextual fear?

Answer 7

Because it is involved in spatial memory

Question 8

Which part of the brain is active during reappraisal and suppression paradigms?

Answer 8

medial prefrontal lobes

Question 9

What are the medial prefrontal lobed linked to?

Answer 9

negative emotions

Question 10

what are the effects of stress on the hippocampus mediated by?

Answer 10

elevated glucocorticoid levels

Question 11

What are glucocorticoid levels mediate by?

Answer 11

induced by corticosterone and blocked by adrenalectomy

Question 12

What is psychoneuroimmunology?

Answer 12

psychology + nervous system + immune system

Question 13

What do stresses stimulate in order to trigger glucocorticoids?

Answer 13

ACTH

Question 14

which are of the brain is activated by stress?

Answer 14

anterior pituitary adrenal cortex

Question 15

What does the adrenal medulla increase?

Answer 15

nephrite and norepinephrine

Question 16

what does cytokines cause?

Answer 16

inflammation, fever and peptide hormones

Question 17

What is the Kluver-Bucy Syndrome?

Answer 17

results from amygdala damage or the removal of anterior temporal lobes

Question 18

Increase sex drive with anything, consumption of anything edible and lack of fear are symptoms of what syndrome?

Answer 18

Kluver-Bucy Syndrome

Question 19

what does the zygomaticus major control?

Answer 19

the lip muscles

Question 20

what does the orbicularis oculi control?

Answer 20

muscles near the eye

Question 21

What is the Duchenne Smile?

Answer 21

A genuine smile, only genuine smiles cause the orbicularis oculi muscles to be used

Question 22

what kind of process is the Cannaon- Bard theory?

Answer 22

Parallel process

Question 23

What did Bard’s research of sham rage lead him to conclude?

Answer 23

that the hypothalamus and adjoining structures play critical roles in the expression of emotion

Question 24

What is a causal factor in gastric ulcers?

Answer 24

H. pylori

Question 25

What do macrophages participate in?

Answer 25

the cell-mediated immune reaction

Question 26

what is the innate immune system?

Answer 26

the first component in the immune system which reacts quickly

Question 27

what is subordination stress?

Answer 27

when conspecific threat becomes an enduring feature of daily life- dominance hierarchy

Question 28

what is a reappraisal paradigm?

Answer 28

participants are instructed to reinterpret a picture to change their emotional reaction to it

Question 29

what are suppression paradigms?

Answer 29

participants are directed to inhibit their emotional reactions to unpleasant films or pictures

Question 30

what is intraspecific defence?

Answer 30

defence against social aggression

Question 31

what is predatory aggression?

Answer 31

stalking or killing with the intent of eating the target

Question 32

What is target site concept?

Answer 32

the idea that any type of aggression is aimed at a specific site on the body