emotion

Question 1

Which type of memory is more resistant to disruption? (consolidation, modulation)

Answer 1

consolidation

Question 2

Which type of memory is more affected by emotion? (consolidation or modulation)

Answer 2

modulation

Question 3

What were the findings in the arousal vs neutral study about the kid and the car accident?

Answer 3

• memory for the critical slides was enhanced for the people who heard the emotional version

Question 4

What are 2 ways to prevent the advantage of memory being modulated by emotion?

Answer 4

• amygdala can be blocked by a beta blocker
• damage occurs to the amygdala

Question 5

What were the results of the study about neutral and arousing film clips?

Answer 5

• emotional arousal at the time of experience
• better memory for the items that had elicited higher glucose in amygdala

Question 6

What did the yerkes-dodson law tell us?
( the inverted U graph)

Answer 6

• a medium of arousal is need for having good memory
• not a high performance on memory on either low and high arousal

Question 7

What are the 6 primary emotions?

Answer 7

• happy
  -surprised
• afraid
• angry
• disgusted
• sad

Question 8

What were the 2 findings in the amygdala & emotion processing study?

Answer 8

• if there is amygdala damage then, impairment in fear & disgust
• the amygdala is highly correlated with fear & disgust

Question 9

What is urbach-wiethe disease?

Answer 9

an unusual, heritable disease where selective damage occurs to the amygdala

Question 10

What were the findings of patient SM?

Answer 10

• severely impaired on fearful face recognition
• can’t assess trustworthiness/ approachability and believes almost every face is untrustworthy
• cannot acquire fear conditioning (aka can’t associate bad outcomes to feeling fear)

Question 11

What are very vivid memories called?

Answer 11

flashbulb memories

Question 12

What are some examples of flashbulb memories?

Answer 12

• 9/11
• JFK shooting
• elections

Question 13

What was found about people who were close to the world trade center and their amygdala activation?

Answer 13

• they had an increased activation during retrieval of 9/11 memories than the ones who were further away

Question 14

What is PTSD?

Answer 14

• when an individual who has been exposed to a traumatic disorder has anxiety symptoms, reexperiencing of event, and avoids similar stimuli

Question 15

What is propranolol?

Answer 15

a beta-blocker that can block usual stress response of release of norepinephrine and epinephrine hormones

Question 16

What was found in the propranolol study?

Answer 16

• participants who had propranolol had decreases in their CAPS scores
• amygdala response was reduced