key studies

Question 1

antonova et al

Answer 1

scopolamine / placebo injection during maze task in fMRI

Question 2

maguire et al

Answer 2

taxi driver MRI, right posterior positive correlation, right anterior negative correlation

Question 3

milner and corkin

Answer 3

patient h.m. medial temporal lobe removed, anterograde amnesia

Question 4

sharot et al

Answer 4

summer and september prompts on those in nyc, if closer experienced flashbulb memories and higher amygdala activation when describing september than summer

Question 5

draganski et al

Answer 5

mris of jugglers vs non-jugglers, increased medial temporal lobe, pruning after three months

Question 6

rogers and kesner

Answer 6

rats made familiar with maze, scopolamine physostigmine placebo conditions, scopolamine deficit in encoding, physostigmine deficit in retrieval

Question 7

caspi et al

Answer 7

interviewed every other year from 1 to 21, questionnaire on stressors from 21 to 26, l/s and s/s had more MDD symptoms if stressed, especially 3+

Question 8

newcomer et al

Answer 8

160 40 placebo cortisol, listen to and recalled prose paragraph one day, four days, six days after ingestion, high cortisol performed worse

Question 9

meaney et al

Answer 9

rats stroked 15 minutes a day for 3 weeks when taken from mother, when 2 years old they were placed in a milky pool, not stroked took indirect route out and had accelerated hippocampus neurons loss and cognitive impairments

Question 10

mcgaugh and cahill

Answer 10

shown 12 slides, half heard emotionally-heightening story for adrenaline and half heard non-emotionally-heightening story, asked to rate how emotion, two weeks later asked details about story, repeated with beta-blockers for emotionally-heightened condition, emotionally-heightening remembered more when not injected

Question 11

zhou et al

Answer 11

homo/hetero male/female asked to identify sex of PLW three times while smelling cloves, with androstadienone and estratetraenol, identified more masculine/feminine if attracted to that sex

Question 12

wedekind et al

Answer 12

males wore shirts for two nights with no deodorant, women presented with three similar, one unworn, three dissimilar MHC shirts, scored more pleasant when dissimilar except if on oral contraceptive

Question 13

fessler et al

Answer 13

pregnant women completed survey, those in first trimester had more disgust sensitivity, nausea and digust correlated positively.

Question 14

curtis et al

Answer 14

20 photos rated for disgust, images in pairs with one disease-salient, asked who were least likely to share a toothbrush, women more disgusted, disease-salient and less familiar more disgusting

Question 15

suomi et al

Answer 15

rhesus macaques mother-reared or peer-reared isolated at 6 months, peer-reared had lower cortisol due to HPA burn-out

Question 16

kendler et al

Answer 16

interviews of swedish twins for MDD symptoms and shared and individual environments, concordance rates higher for MZ twins than DZ, no correlation with how long they lived together.

Question 17

weissman et al

Answer 17

depressed and non-depressed participants interviewed over 20 years by 2 clinicians for MDD symptoms, grandchildren with 2 preceding depressed generations more likely to develop psychiatric disorders by 12, severity of parent depression correlated with increased mood disorder, if parents depressed by grandparents not there was no impact

Question 18

glanzer and cunitz one

Answer 18

one of six conditions, hear once or twice at three or six or nine second rate, free recall showed primacy effect for those with more time and recency effect for all

Question 19

glanzer and cunitz two

Answer 19

15 word lists, at the end either shown a # to recall immediately or number 0 - 9 from which they would count up for 10 or 30 seconds, primacy for all, recency for immediate, 10 second little recency, 30 second no recency

Question 20

landry and bartling

Answer 20

saw a list of phonologically dissimilar letters in different order, either repeated numbers 1 and 2 at 2 numbers per second or not, articulatory supression task distracted phonological loop, reduced memory

Question 21

bransford and johnson

Answer 21

ambiguous washing clothes, no title or title before or title after, title before recalled more

Question 22

brewers and treyens

Answer 22

waited for 35 seconds in an office room with schema congruent and non-congruent items, either wrote items or drew items or read from list and stated what was present, writing and drawing remembered conguent items, verbal remembered more incongruent and some congruent that weren’t in the office