Ch. 16 neuorscience

Question 1

Behavioral neuroscience

Answer 1

the study of the brain processes underlying motivation and learning

Question 2

Richard thompson (1930-2014)

Answer 2

american behavioral neuroscientist, who isolated the engram and demonstrated the role of the cerebellum in learning and memory

Question 3

Who was richard thompson’s hero?

Answer 3

karl lashley

Question 4

The neurobiology of learning and memory in journal science (1986) Thompson

Answer 4

traced the neural pathway of a conditioned response, finding the exact location that linked stimulus with the response

Question 5

Where was the engram Thompson found related to his research

Answer 5

the engram was situated in the interpositus nucleus of cerebellum

Question 6

cognitive neuroscience

Answer 6

study of the brain process underlying memory and attention

Question 7

Ended Tulring (1927-)

Answer 7

estonian-canadian psychologist who advocated for episodic memory as a separated memory system

Question 8

Procedural memory

Answer 8

(tying your shoes) implicit memories

Question 9

semantic memory

Answer 9

memory of facts, explicit memory

Question 10

What did tulving believe each type of memory was associated with?

Answer 10

some sort of consciousness

Question 11

procedural, semantic, episodic

Answer 11

non-knowing consciousness, knowing consciousness, self-knowing consciousness

Question 12

affective neuroscience

Answer 12

study of brain processes underlying emotion which holds promise to provide answers to important questions regarding mental health and disease

Question 13

Elements of episodic memory (1983) Tulving

Answer 13

proposed a third distinction-episodic memory(recollection of personal experiences)

Question 14

Richard Lazarus (1922-2002)

Answer 14

american psychologist who developed the transaction model of stress

Question 15

Transactional model of stress

Answer 15

the proposal that stress is moderated by cognitive appraisal of the situation

Question 16

In psychological stress and the coping process (1966) the appraisal takes place where?

Answer 16

In two stages primary and secondary

Question 17

primary appraisal

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involves an assessment of the potential effect of the stressful situation on the individual

Question 18

secondary appraisal

Answer 18

involves an assessment of our ability to cope with the stressful event

Question 19

What happened in stress, appraisal and coping (1984)?

Answer 19

Lazarus and folk man distinguished two types of coping

Question 20

problem-focused coping

Answer 20

people do this when they believe they have control over the situation, it is a direct attempt to solve the problem

Question 21

emotion-focused coping

Answer 21

people use it when they have no control over the situation

Question 22

What paved the way to a third wave of neuroscience (affected neuroscience)?

Answer 22

the two coping ways

Question 23

Jaak Panksepp (1943-2017)

Answer 23

estonian-american who founded the field of affective neuroscience “the rat tickler”

Question 24

opioid hypothesis (Jaak)

Answer 24

the conjecture that the formation of social attachment and contact comfort is mediated by endogenous opioids

Question 25

Where did Jaak believe emotions came from?

Answer 25

the mammallian brain

Question 26

What did Jaak find out about attack modes in rats?

Answer 26

found that he could elicit two types of attack modes in rats depending on the deep brain region he stimulated