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Week 17 Flashcards

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What is a drive state?

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An affective behaviour that results in specific benefits for the body

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What is the purpose of a drive state?

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Maintaining stability across the entire body, remaining at homeostasis

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What happens when drive states intensify?

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Direct attention towards elements, activities, forms of consumption that satisfy biological needs

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How do drive states effect time?

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Produce a collapsing of time perspective towards the present, impatience

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What is hunger triggered by?

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Low glucose levels

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What is satiation?

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decline of hunger and termination of eating behaviour

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What part of the brain is stimulated in male arousal?

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Preoptic area

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What part of the brain is stimulated in female arousal?

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ventromedial hypothalamus

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What are the results of frequent positive emotions?

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life satisfaction, physical health, resilience, social connection, longevity

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How does the external environment impact emotions?

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Determine what emotion is the best to feel

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What is affective neuroscience?

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Examines how the brain creates emotional responses?

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What are emotions?

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psychological phenomena’s that involve changes to the body, autonomic nervous system, urges

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What do emotions revolve around?

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survival and reproductive needs

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What part of the brain is responsible for basic emotions?

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Cerebral cortex

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What parts of the brain are involved in desire?

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Lateral hypothalami’s, amygdala, nucleus accumbens, frontal cortex

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How are the regions associated with desire activated?

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Dopamine

17
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What are the desire brain structures sensitive to?

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Cocaine

18
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What part of the brain is involved with liking?

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nucleus accumbens

19
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What drug is the liking part of the brain sensitive to?

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opioids

20
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What part of the brain does pleasure involve?

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Orbitofrontal cortex

21
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What part of the brain is involved with fear?

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central amygdala and periaqueductal gray

22
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What drugs are the fear parts of the brain sensitive to?

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Glutamate, corticotrophin

23
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What parts of the brain are involved with rage?

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Medial amygdala, hypothalamus, periaqueductal gray?

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What parts of the brain are involved with love?

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Dorsal preoptic are and stria terminalis

25
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What hormones and drugs are the love parts of the brain impacted by?

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Oxytocin, endogenous opioids

26
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How can separation stress be evoked?

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stimulating the dorsomedial thalamus, ventral septum, dorsal preoptic region, stria termanalis

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