Chapter 12 Emotion

Question 1

Emotion components (3)

Answer 1

Cognition

Readiness for action

Feeling

Question 2

Emotion

Answer 2

Arouse the autonomic nervous system

A special mixture of sympathetic and parasympathetic arousal

Question 3

James Lange theory

Predictions

Answer 3

Autonomic arousal and skeletal action occurs first in an emotion

People with weak respond should feel less emotion

Increasing ones response should enhance an emotion

Question 4

Pure autonomic failure

Answer 4

Output from the autonomic nervous system to the body fails

Question 5

Panic attacks

Answer 5

Extreme sympathetic nervous system arousal

Question 6

Emotions tend to be localized

True or false

Answer 6

False

Emotion increases activity in various parts of the brain

Question 7

Activation to the frontal lobe and temporal areas of the left hemisphere associated with ?

People ?

Answer 7

Approach

Behavioral activation system : low to moderate arousal ( happiness or anger)

People tend to be happier

Question 8

Behavioral inhibition system BIS

People?

Answer 8

Increase activity of the frontal and temporal life of the right hemisphere

Increases attention and arousal

Fear and disgust

People tend to be less satisfied

Question 9

Functions of emotions

Answer 9

Adaptive values

Make quick decisions

Make moral decisions

Question 10

Environmental factors associated with increased violent behaviors?

Answer 10

Exposure to lead

Smoking during pregnancy

Question 11

Violence is enhanced with both ?

Answer 11

Genetic factors and troubled environment

MAOA and childhood maltreatment

Question 12

Testosterone and anger ?

Answer 12

Testosterone may increase the response of the amygdala to angry expressions

Question 13

Turnover

Answer 13

The amount of a neurotransmitter that is released and resynthesized by neurons

Question 14

5-HIAA associated with what neurotransmitter?

Answer 14

Serotonin in the blood

Question 15

Amygdala

Answer 15

One of the main areas for integrating both environmental and genetic influences and then regulating current levels of anxiety

Question 16

Startle reflex suggests?

Answer 16

Fear is built in and unlearned

Question 17

Output from the amygdala to the hypothalamus controls ?

Answer 17

Autonomic fear responses

Question 18

Axons extending from the amygdala to the prefrontal cortex regulate?

Answer 18

Approach and avoidance responses

Question 19

Damage to the amygdala interferes with ?

Answer 19

Learning of fear responses

Retention of fear responses

Interpreting or understand stimuli with emotional consequences

Question 20

Arousal of the amygdala relates to ?

Answer 20

Tendency to Experience of some negative emotions

Excessive fear and anxiety

Question 21

Behavioral medicine

Answer 21

emphasizes the effects of health diet, smoking, exercise, stressful experiences and other behaviors

Question 22

Stress

Answer 22

The non specific response of the body to any demand made upon it

Question 23

General adaptation syndrome

Answer 23

A general response to stress activated by treats on the body

Question 24

Stress activates two systems in the body?

Answer 24

Sympathetic nervous system

HP axis (hypothalamus, pituitary gland, and adrenal cortex)

Question 25

ACTH

Answer 25

Secretes cortisol

Cortisol helps to mobilized energies to fight difficult situations

Question 26

Immense system

Answer 26

Consists of cells that protect the body by producing leukocytes (white blood cells)

Question 27

Antibodies

Answer 27

Attach to particular kinds of antigens

Question 28

Antigens

Answer 28

Proteins that are antibody generator molecules