Lesson Nine

Question 1

According to the James-Lange theory:
a. Conscious awareness is only possible for negative emotions.
b. The experience of emotion is awareness of the physiological responses to emotion-arousing stimuli.
c. Conscious awareness of the emotional state is necessary to feel pain.
d. Physiological responses and subjective experience of emotion are triggered simultaneously.

Answer 1

b. The experience of emotion is awareness of the physiological responses to emotion-arousing stimuli.

Question 2

Decorticate animal models have shown:
a. Unusual happiness.
b. Unusual physiological responses.
c. Unusual aggression.
d. Unusual expression.

Answer 2

c. Unusual aggression

Question 3

Dopamine is involved in:
a. Feeling of fear.
b. Visual perception of emotions.
c. Detection of anger.
d. Feeling of pleasure.

Answer 3

d. Feeling of pleasure.

Question 4

In the Limbic System, the Hypothalamus is essential for:
a. Emotional expression.
b. Emotional recognition.
c. Emotional discrimination.
d. Emotional memory.

Answer 4

a. Emotional expression.

Question 5

The Amygdala is involved in the processing of:
a. Motion.
b. Fear.
c. Hormones.
d. Happiness

Answer 5

b. Fear.

Question 6

The Kluver-Bucy Syndrome is characterized by:
a. No smell perception after surgery.
b. No motor planning after surgery.
c. No colour perception after surgery.
d. No fear or aggression after surgery.

Answer 6

d. No fear or aggression after surgery.

Question 7

The Nucleus Accumbens releases:
a. Serotonin.
b. Hormones.
c. Oxytocin.
d. Dopamine.

Answer 7

d. Dopamine.

Question 8

The Papez Circuit is involved in:
a. Emotion processing.
b. Motor processing.
c. Verbal processing.
d. Visual processing.

Answer 8

a. Emotion processing.

Question 9

Which are the 6 primary facial expressions of emotions (Ekman and Friesen)?
a. Anger, fear, hate, happiness, surprise, sadness.
b. Anger, fear, happiness, empathy, surprise, sadness.
c. Anger, fear, happiness, surprise, sadness, disgust.
d. Anger, fear, hate, happiness, empathy, anxiety.

Answer 9

c. Anger, fear, happiness, surprise, sadness, disgust.

Question 10

Which is the neural correlate of disgust?
a. Frontal cortex.
b. M1.
c. Insula.
d. Amygdala.

Answer 10

c. Insula.