Ch. 16 neuorscience Flashcards
Behavioral neuroscience
the study of the brain processes underlying motivation and learning
Richard thompson (1930-2014)
american behavioral neuroscientist, who isolated the engram and demonstrated the role of the cerebellum in learning and memory
Who was richard thompson’s hero?
karl lashley
The neurobiology of learning and memory in journal science (1986) Thompson
traced the neural pathway of a conditioned response, finding the exact location that linked stimulus with the response
Where was the engram Thompson found related to his research
the engram was situated in the interpositus nucleus of cerebellum
cognitive neuroscience
study of the brain process underlying memory and attention
Ended Tulring (1927-)
estonian-canadian psychologist who advocated for episodic memory as a separated memory system
Procedural memory
(tying your shoes) implicit memories
semantic memory
memory of facts, explicit memory
What did tulving believe each type of memory was associated with?
some sort of consciousness
procedural, semantic, episodic
non-knowing consciousness, knowing consciousness, self-knowing consciousness
affective neuroscience
study of brain processes underlying emotion which holds promise to provide answers to important questions regarding mental health and disease
Elements of episodic memory (1983) Tulving
proposed a third distinction-episodic memory(recollection of personal experiences)
Richard Lazarus (1922-2002)
american psychologist who developed the transaction model of stress
Transactional model of stress
the proposal that stress is moderated by cognitive appraisal of the situation
In psychological stress and the coping process (1966) the appraisal takes place where?
In two stages primary and secondary
primary appraisal
involves an assessment of the potential effect of the stressful situation on the individual
secondary appraisal
involves an assessment of our ability to cope with the stressful event
What happened in stress, appraisal and coping (1984)?
Lazarus and folk man distinguished two types of coping
problem-focused coping
people do this when they believe they have control over the situation, it is a direct attempt to solve the problem
emotion-focused coping
people use it when they have no control over the situation
What paved the way to a third wave of neuroscience (affected neuroscience)?
the two coping ways
Jaak Panksepp (1943-2017)
estonian-american who founded the field of affective neuroscience “the rat tickler”
opioid hypothesis (Jaak)
the conjecture that the formation of social attachment and contact comfort is mediated by endogenous opioids
Where did Jaak believe emotions came from?
the mammallian brain
What did Jaak find out about attack modes in rats?
found that he could elicit two types of attack modes in rats depending on the deep brain region he stimulated
