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In “Depression and the Self,” Fredrik Svenaeus uses this kind of philosophical approach to investigate how depression and the self are interconnected:

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Phenomenological

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Which of the follow brain structure abnormalities are associated with depression? (there’s three)

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  1. Hippocampal volume is reduced
  2. Increased activation in the amygdala
  3. Increased activity in the frontal lobe with cognitive tasks
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Which of the following, according to Svenaeus, have most easy-to-pinpoint cognitive content:

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Emotions or feelings

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According to Heidegger, which of the following is a mood wherein the things we normally engage with become unfamiliar and lose their meaning, but which can be valuable by revealing our “thrownness”?

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Anxiety

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T/F: According to the “monoamine hypothesis,” depression results from lower levels of monoamine neurotransmitters (primarily serotonin and norepinephrine)

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True

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Counterintuitively, Heidegger argues that these two states of mind are useful for understanding one’s “being-in-the-world”

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Boredom and Anxiety

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Depression occurs in approximately what percent of the population over 12 years old?

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7%

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Which of the following are symptoms used for diagnosing a manic phase of bipolar disorder?

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Talking rapidly
Irritability
Grandiose feelings

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T/F: According to evidence from twin studies, PTSD causes an increase in the size of the hippocampus in people with PTSD.

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True

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T/F: In people with OCD, routine and repetitive acts are considered compulsions while recurrent and intrusive thoughts are considered obsessions.

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True

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PTSD Occurs in approximately what percentage of the population?

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1-3%

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Phobias occur in approximately what percentage of the population?

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9%

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What is the name for a shot that shows the subject from the head to just below the knee?

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Three Quarters Shot

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What does mise-en-scène not include?

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Sound

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Define master shot.

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A master shot is a shot taken from a long distance that includes as much of the set or location as possible as well all the characters in the scene

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What did the Kuleshov Experiment illustrate?

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The role of editing sequence in conveying emotion in film

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Non-Diagetic sound refers to:

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Sound that does not take place in the world of the story

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In the film A Beautiful Mind, moments of Nash’s creative intelligence and hallucinations are both repeatedly illustrated with which filmic technique?

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Temporarily increased light exposure

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In the film Fearless, what does Max eat in the diner?

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Strawberries

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Which of the following employs a stationary camera?

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Pan shot, tilt shot, zoom

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Which of the following employs a moving camera?

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Tracking shot / dolly: camera moves parallel to ground
Crane shot: camera mounted on device that moves up and down
Steadicams: attached to camera operator’s body for smooth movement
Hand-held shots: jerky effect, often read as realism

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T/F: In Yglesias’ novel, Max considers his own stressful childhood experiences of traveling by plane alone.

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True

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In Fearless, what sound is repeatedly used to introduce the protagonists’ flashbacks?

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The sound of the airplane’s engines

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In comparison to the final film version, Goldsman’s screenplay of A Beautiful Mind begins with which scene?

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Nash meeting his classmates at an outdoor reception

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How does the cinematography of A Beautiful Mind align the audience’s gaze with Nash’s?
Using first-person POV shots
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T/F: Continuity editing attempts to hide the cuts between shots and is typical of the “Classical Hollywood Style.”
True
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T/F: Helen Meekosha states that there are 400 million people with disabilities living in the global north.
False. There are 400 million disabled people living in the global South
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Which of the following describes Expressionist art?
Depicts subjective states Often deliberately distorts form and color as a way to convey inner emotional states Seeks to elicit emotional effects in viewers NOT first developed in Britain in the 1800s => actually 1900s
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According to Bogart and Dunn the following is a definition of what phenomenon: “ideas, practices, institutions and social relations that presume ablebodiedness, and by so doing, construct persons with disabilities as marginalized . . . and largely invisible ‘others’”
Ableism
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According to Bogart and Dunn, who is the largest minority group in the US?
The disabled community
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T/F: In Spider, Spider’s mother was killed by his father and his mistress, Yvonne.
False. Spider's mother was killed by Spider
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A long shot of Spider walking on an empty street to Mrs. Wilkinson’s Halfway house, is intended to convey
Spider's interior feeling of isolation
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Which of the following is included in the first two chapters of the novel Spider?
Spider is fixated on Gas Works Spider is wary of Kitchner Street Spider likes to roll his own cigarettes
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T/F: Spider was given his nickname because he walked quickly and was always rushing like a spider.
False
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Price argues that understandings of crip and bodymind must consider what two concepts?
Desire and pain
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In the film Spider, which of the following colors is the most predominant in scenes depicting Adult Spider’s presence?
Gray
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NS: T/F: More females are diagnosed with depression
True
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NS: T/F: The onset for schizophrenia is later in males
False. The onset for schizophrenia is earlier in males
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PHILOS: What three phenomena does the author think are central to depression?
Boredom, sadness, anxiety
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PHILOS: How does the author distinguish sensation, emotion and mood?
Sensations: located in a distinct place in the body (tickle, itch, pain, etc.) Emotions: have content = directed at something or someone (love, hate resentment, etc.) Moods: not located on the body and not directed or about something
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PHILOS: Define bodily resonance.
Bodily resonance- how the body picks up mood and its way of connecting to the world of human projects.
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NS: What are the three anxiety disorders described in class?
General anxiety disorder, PTSD, Phobia
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NS: Who is most likely to suffer from anxiety?
About 15% of people have experienced symptoms of anxiety in the past two weeks. The rate for women is higher (19%) and the most common age group is young adults
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FILM: What is mise-en-scene?
Mise-en-scene is the totality of expressive visual content in a scene
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FILM: What does mise-en-scene not include?
Does not necessarily mimic reality, does not include sound/dialogue
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FILM: What is the difference between a long shot and a long take?
Long shot: appears to be taken from a long distance LONG TAKE: a shot of long duration
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FILM: Typically, directors use low angle shots to
“Aggrandize their subjects” This creates a sense of power and superiority of the character in the shot
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FILM: What are the three main categories of film sound?
Dialogue, sound effects, music
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What is the difference between digetic and non-digetic sound?
Diegetic sound: anything the characters can hear Non-diegetic: any sound that is for the audience’s ears only
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FILM: What film techniques are employed to suggest that there could be a connection between Nash’s schizophrenia and his genius?
Overexposure When Nash has a stroke of genius, characters and visuals fly off the pages of books and off blackboards and the directing becomes jumpy and discontinuous in a manager suggestive of a hallucination.
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FILM: What is the gist of Nash’s most celebrated contribution to economics
The game theory Mutual gain– Evolution of relationship with Hansen Game theory, algebraic geometry, and nonlinear theory Ideas about human rivalry (thoughts on rational conflict and cooperation)
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FILM: What is the major structural difference between the first 11 pages of the shooting script of A Beautiful Mind and the final cut of the film?
Screenplay: started in outdoor reception area with a crowd of people and Nash met his peers - image of the light shining through glass - shapes and figures of the reflected light are aligning Movie: Opened in classroom setting where Professor John Helinger is welcoming all of the new students. “Mathematicians won the war…”
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FILM: What are the positive and negative symptoms of schizophrenia that Nash experiences?
Positive symptom: Thought Disorders: Irrational Thoughts Delusions: Grandeur; Persecution Hallucinations: Charles; Niece; Parcher Negative symptoms: Emotional and social withdrawal Blunted affect
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FILM: Identify at least three specific film techniques used to portray positive symptoms, and two to portray negative symptoms of schizophrenia in A Beautiful Mind.
Medium shot John Nash in his house playing a toy (negative, dulled affect) Bright light to signify hallucinations/delusions (positive) Lowkey lighting/muted colors to show dulled affect (negative) POV shot on Nash’s hallucinations (positive)
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FILM: How does the beginning of Rafael Yglesias’ novel Fearless differ from the beginning of Peter Weir’s film?
Beginning of novel is when Max and Carla are still inside the plane right before it crashes Beginning of film is when plane already crashed
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FILM: In what ways do Carla’s behaviors in the wake of the crash differ from Max’s behaviors?
Max feels invincible and spend most the time out of the house, while Carla becomes afraid to even leave her house Carla clearly blames herself, while Max doesn’t
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FILM: What are some of the film techniques, both visual and aural, used to convey the protagonists’ respective experiences of PTSD?
For Carla and Max: Flashbacks Sound to usher in flashbacks Slight slow motion (in flashbacks and present) Composition and lighting of interiors to reflect mental states Specifically For Max: Fragmented self Light motif
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FILM: What is distinctive about Max's PTSD response in comparison to Carla?
Max: Seeing his business partner’s death generates a PTSD response that also triggers a previous, underlying traumatic experience: having seen his father die when he was thirteen.
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FILM: For whom do Carla and Max buy presents on their joint trip to the shopping mall?
Carla: toys for her son Max: toolbox for his father
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The term “Post Traumatic Stress Disorder” was coined in what decade?
1970s
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FILM: David Cronenberg calls Spider an expressionist film. In what ways are the sets in Spider expressionistic?
Bricked out windows Foreground and background merge Spider Becomes 
“Part of a Rothko Painting”
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FILM: What are the three temporal planes of Spider?
Present: Boarding House in East London Adult Spider’s Memories of Recent Past: Former Institution Adult Spider’s Memories of Childhood: A) memories of childhood experiences B) memories of childhood conjectures
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What visual film strategy does Cronenberg use to indicate that certain scenes in the film are childhood memories, which Adult Spider is recalling in the present?
When he is recalling a delusion, child Spider is not in the scene, and only adult Spider is there, observing his "memory."
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What three roles does the actress Miranda Richardson play in the film?
Yvonne, Mrs. Wilkinson, Spider's mother (Mrs. Cleg)
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Identify three film techniques Cronenberg uses to suggest that the gasworks are significant to Spider?
Gasworks loom large in Spider’s mind Cut to 8 second take in shifting colors. 
 Long take: static camera, 
13 seconds on Fiennes
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Does Spider’s notebook contain actual writing? Why does he destroy it?
Spider believes his notebook contains actual writing, but in reality it only contains meaningless scribbles. Spider destroys it because he is afraid Mrs. Wilkinson, who he believes is now Yvonne, is about to discover the notebook and seek vengeance for what he wrote

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