Physiological Psychology

Question 1

People with this type of aphasia have slow, labored speech. Comprehension of written and spoken language is relatively intact. Have impaired repetition and anomia.

Answer 1

Broca’s aphasia

Question 2

This type of aphasia is characterized by relatively intact comprehension with fluent speech that contains many errors, impaired repetition, and anomia.

Answer 2

conduction aphasia

Question 3

People with this type of aphasia is characterized by impaired comprehension of written and spoken language. Speech is fluent, but contains many word substitutions and errors.

Answer 3

Wernicke’s aphasia.

Question 4

What does damage to the dorsolateral PFC do?

Answer 4

Produces dysexecutive syndrome–deficits in working memory, impaired judgment and insight, lack of planning ability, perseverative responses, apathy, and disinterest

Question 5

Damage to______ causes disinhibited syndrome which is characterized by behavioral disinhibition, distractibility, emotional lability, and inappropriate euphoria. Acquired sociopathy

Answer 5

Orbitofrontal PFC

Question 6

What is apathetic-akinetic syndrome and which PFC area is affected

Answer 6

Mediofrontal PFC. It is decreased motor movement and verbal output, lack of initiative and motivation. Flat or diminished affect.

Question 7

Hemispatial neglect is due to damage of what side of the parital lobe?

Answer 7

Right (non dominant)

Question 8

right-left disorientation, finger agnosia, agraphia, and acalculia is associated with which syndrome?

Answer 8

gerstmann’s syndrome

Question 9

this involves the inability to plan and execute a task that requires a sequence of action (such as steps to make a sandwich)

Answer 9

ideational apraxia

Question 10

this involves the inability to perform a motor activity in response to verbal comment such as “pretend to comb your hair” and is due to damage in the left (dominant parietal lobe)

Answer 10

ideomotor apraxia

Question 11

Hypo/Hyperactivity in amygdala and hypo/hyperactivity in the ventromedial prefrontal cortex is associated with PTSD

Answer 11

hyper in amygdala and hypo in ventromedial prefrontal cortex

Question 12

Loss of ___neurons in the___is believed to contribute to depression and cognitive impairment in patients with parkinson’s

Answer 12

norepinephrine; locus coeruleus

Question 13

Symptoms of this disorder include increased rate of metabolism, elevated body temperature, heat intolerance, emotional lability, and reduced attention span

Answer 13

Hyperthyroidism

Question 14

Which blood vessel is affected by stroke if person is experience hemiparaesis (leg), impaired insight and judgment, mutism, apathy, confusion.

Answer 14

anterior cerebral artery

Question 15

Which artery is impacted if the person has contralateral sensory loss, vomiting, nausea and hemianopsia(loss of half of the visual field)

Answer 15

posterior cerebral artery

Question 16

Which artery is affected when you see contralateral sensory loss, weakness, paralysis, aphasia?

Answer 16

Middle cenrebral artery

Question 17

James -lange theory

Answer 17

Physiological reaction then emotion

Bear—>heart race—>fear

Question 18

Cannon-Bard Theory

Answer 18

simultaneous experience of emotion and physical experience

Question 19

Lazarus’s Cognitive Appraisal Theory

Answer 19

Physiological arousal follows cognitive appraisal

Question 20

Which hemisphere of the cerebral cortex mediates positive emotions and what happens when its damanged?

Answer 20

Left (dominant); catastrophic reaction—depression, anxiety, fear, and paranoia

Question 21

Which theory of emotion is associated with the “Fake it till you make it”?

Answer 21

James-Lange Theory

“facial feedback hypothesis”

Question 22

Which theory involves attributing the experience of emotion to physiological arousal followed by assigning a cognitive label

Answer 22

Schacter and Singer’s two factor theory

Question 23

Damage to these two areas can cause anterograde and retrograde amnesia

Answer 23

Thalamus and Mammillary bodies

Question 24

Serotonin plays a role in which one (short term or long term memory)

Answer 24

Short term!

Question 25

Which neurotransmitter plays a role in LTP?

Answer 25

glutamate

Question 26

Damage to the hippocampus causes difficulty with which type of memory (procedural or declarative)?

Answer 26

Declarative

Question 27

What stage of sleep do you see sleep spindles(sudden bursts of moderately fast waves) and K-complexes(large slow waves)?

Answer 27

Stage 2 sleep

Question 28

Which stages are considered slow-wave sleep?

Answer 28

Stage 3 and 4 sleep

Question 29

When do delta waves begin

Answer 29

stage 3 sleep

Question 30

What was HM’s primary imapriment?

Answer 30

anterograde amnesia–couldn’t form new long-term declarative memories

Question 31

Long-term potentiation is important for what

Answer 31

formation of new memories

Question 32

Steven’s power law (think if something is to the power of it is____)

Answer 32

exponential based

Question 33

fechner’s law

Answer 33

logarithmic based

Question 34

afterimages and red/green and blue/yellow colorblindness is explained by which theory?

Answer 34

opponent-process theory

Question 35

what is anosognoisa

Answer 35

lack of understanding, awareness, or acceptable that you have a medical condition

Question 36

What is responsible for depth perception at a close distance?

Answer 36

Retinal disparity

Question 37

Which class of medication used to treated anxiety enhances GABA activity and is used as a general anesthetic?

Answer 37

Barbiturates

Question 38

carbamazepine is what type of drug

Hint: used to treat bipolar disorder

Answer 38

Anticonvulsant

Question 39

disulifiram is the generic for what?

Answer 39

Antabuse

Question 40

acamprostate treats what?

Answer 40

Alcohol use disorder

Question 41

Which types of drugs cause agranulocytosis?

Answer 41

Anticonvulsant and Second Gen Antipsychotics

Question 42

What class of drug is isocarboxazid (Marplan)

Answer 42

MAOI

Question 43

What class of drug is imipramine, clomipramine, nortriptyline, and desipramine, and doxepin

Answer 43

Tricyclic antidepressants (TCA)

Question 44

Kluver-Bucy syndrome (caused by bilateral lesioning of the amygdala, hippocampus, and temporal lobes)

Answer 44

Hyperphagia(increased appetite), hypersexuality, hyperorality(putting objects in mouth), hypersexuality, visual agnosia

Question 45

What happens when you present a picture of a spoon to the right visual fields of a spilt brain patient so that info is only transmitted to their left (dominant hemisphere)?

Answer 45

Patients could say that they saw a spoon and could use their right hand to pick out a spoon by touch from a collection of objects hidden from sight, but could not do so with their left hands.

Question 46

What is the cause primary hypertension?

Answer 46

Cause is unknown

Question 47

For patients with Alzheimer’s disease, an MRI is most likely to reveal degeneration of which of the following?

Answer 47

entorhinal cortex