section 5 pain and cognition

Question 1

limbic system

Answer 1

automatic nervous system, emotional life, memories, hippocampus, amygdala, hypothalamus, underneath the cortex

Question 2

intentional learning

Answer 2

• observing another person
• being told about the painful experience
• require conscious effort
• cortex, different part of the brain than automatic learning

Question 3

automatic learning

Answer 3

when the situation happens to us, like burning skin

Question 4

pain and distraction experiment

Answer 4

• Susana Bantick, Oxford 2002
• we are cabable to pay only so much attention to one thing so distructing from pain can reduce the pain we feel.
• experiment was done on heat
• decreased activity in areas of brain that receive pain signals HOWEVER increased activity in areas such anterior cingulate cortex (ACC)
  Greater signal send to spinal cord interneurons that act like gate in spinal cord, supresses transmission of pain info

Question 5

PROMPT what does it stand for

Answer 5

Presentation 
Relevance 
Objectivity 
Method 
Provalence 
Timeliness