Introduction to Cognition and Emotion

Question 1

What are the 3 units of the CNS according to Luria’s Brain Behaviour Theory?

Answer 1

1. brainstem and associated areas for regulation of muscle tone and arousal
2. posterior cortical zones - for sensation and perception and meaning
3. anterior cortical zones - for motor and planning and executing behaviour

Question 2

What is the limbic system and what structures make it up?

Answer 2

The neural systems associated with emotion - includes the cingulate gyrus, amygdala, hippocampus, hypothalamus

Question 3

What does a lesion of the amygdala result in?

Answer 3

loss of fear

Question 4

What does a lesion of the orbitofrontal cortex result in?

Answer 4

inability to indentify emotions in others and express own emotions

Question 5

What is the James Lange theory of emotion?

Answer 5

we experience emotion in response to a physiological response

Question 6

What is the Cannon Bard theory of emotion?

Answer 6

you can experience emotion without a physiological response