R21 Questions Flashcards
In Freud’s view, mental illness results when _________fails.
repression
Cognitive neuroscientists delineate different memory systems that process _________ and ___________ memories as stand-ins for the Freudian terms conscious and unconscious processes.
Explicit and Implicit
LeDoux’s found a pathway connecting perceptual information with primitive brain structures important for generating fear responses. This pathway bypasses the __________, which generates conscious memories.
hippocampus
The above path may explain:
conscious feelings/fears are more irrational.
According to this author, what is the cause of infantile amnesia?
The major brain structures that are responsible for the formation of conscious memories are not fully developed.
According to this author, why does infantile amnesia not mean that early experiences do not affect us in ways that fundamentally shape our future personality and mental health?
Events that occur early in life have lasting effects on brain structures that shape our later behaviors.
What mechanism from studies of split-brain patients, does Solms consider as an explanation for the “repression”/rationalization offered by anosognosic patients in response to the consequences of their unacknowledged impairments
Mechanisms of defense
Damage to the frontal limbic regions of the brain causes confabulations. It follows that frontal limbic regions may be involved in what cognitive function?
Self-awareness or reality monitoring
What four “drive systems” have neuroscientists proposed based on lesion studies, the effects of drugs and artificial stimulation of the brain?
- The “seeking”/“reward” system
- The “anger-rage” system
- The “fear-anxiety” system
- The “panic” system
The relationship between neurochemistry and the “reward” system has been demonstrated most convincingly in studying:
cases of addiction
