People

Question 1

Andrea Yates

Answer 1

mother who killed her kids
guilty=know what you did was wrong, insane=don’t know
Cog: thought she had to do it to save them
Bio: fam hist of depression, post-partum
Cult: husband sucked, fam gone, off meds

Question 2

Holmes and Rahe

Answer 2

SSSRS: stress ratings scale

Question 3

Sapolsky

Answer 3

baboons
humans smart enough to make themselves sick
high rank=less stress

Question 4

Marmot

Answer 4

Whitehall Study, longitudal
Brit civil servants
higher rank=less stress

Question 5

Shively

Answer 5

monkeys
subordinate= atheroschlerosis (clogged arteries)
dominant= more dopamine

Question 6

Roseboom

Answer 6

Dutch Hunger Winter
mother stressed when preg=baby is sick as adult
impacts of prenatal exposure to stress in later life

Question 7

Blackburn

Answer 7

mothers of disabled kids
stress=shortened telomeres, premature aging unless you socialise
backed up tend and befriend

Question 8

Taylor

Answer 8

female stress response

tend and befriend

Question 9

McEwan

Answer 9

stress makes you stupid
stress=shrunken brain cells in hippocampus
dendrites less weblike/thick, hard to remeber explicit memories

Question 10

Walter Cannon

Answer 10

male stress response

fight or flight

Question 11

Hans Selye

Answer 11

GAS=ARE

general adaptation syndrome=alarm resistance exhaustion

Question 12

Descartes

Answer 12

dualist

mind and body separate

Question 13

Broca

Answer 13

Broca’s area
speech
Tan

Question 14

Tan

Answer 14

Broca’s patient, lesion to left temple, could only say “tan”

Question 15

Wernicke

Answer 15

Wernicke’s area

ability to understand speech

Question 16

Delgado

Answer 16

LoF

bull

Question 17

Sperry

Answer 17

1981
split brain on epileptics
Nobel Prize

Question 18

Gazzaniga

Answer 18

worked w/ Sperry, still active

Question 19

Genie

Answer 19

extremely impoverished environment

Question 20

Susan Curtis

Answer 20

closest to Genie, worked w/ her in rehab

Question 21

HM

Answer 21

epileptic w/ split brain

Question 22

Clive Wearing

Answer 22

encephalitis

Question 23

Franz Gall

Answer 23

phrenology

bumps on head determine personality

Question 24

Phineas Gage

Answer 24

pole through head
how does damage to brain change behavior?
lost frontal lobe, lost inhibition control

Question 25

Pennebaker

Answer 25

TAT test
determine personality from writing (achievement, dominance/power, affiliation/social)
PNI

Question 26

Ader

Answer 26

father of PNI
conditioned rats
environment effects immune system
SES and “feeling poor”

Question 27

Marion Diamond

Answer 27

worked w/ Genie

impoverished v enriched environment

Question 28

Abigail Baird

Answer 28

teens think, adults visualize and think

Question 29

Jay Giedd

Answer 29

EFC

prefrontal cortex in teens not developed

Question 30

Nowinski

Answer 30

Sports Legacy Institute
started concussion work
Cantu

Question 31

Snowden

Answer 31

nun study

more idea density=less chance of Alzheimer’s

Question 32

Money

Answer 32

David Reimer’s doctor

unethical

Question 33

David Reimer

Answer 33

born Bruce, bad castration, raised as a girl

nature v nuture

Question 34

VS Ramachandran

Answer 34

mirror neurons
“monkey see, monkey do”
allow us to learn by watching, feel empathy

Question 35

Giffords

Answer 35

plasticity after shot in head

Question 36

LeVay

Answer 36

correlational study postmortem
HIV+ men compared w/ straight men/women
hypothalamus smaller than norm, closer to female

Question 37

LeMettrie

Answer 37

materialist

mind and body connected, influence each other