Question 1

Investigators have found that individuals who suffer prefrontal cortex damage ____.​

Accepted Answer

A)  often make bad decisions
B)  ​become more logical than usual in their reasoning
C)  ​become excessively inhibited in their dealings with others
D)  perform poorly on IQ tests

Question 2

Individuals who manage to succeed and thrive despite many difficulties may best be described as ____.​

Accepted Answer

A)  being resilient
B)  ​immune to stress
C)  ​having autonomic failure
D)  having a suppressed HPA axis

Question 3

Which of the following has been associated with an increased probability of suicide attempts?​

Accepted Answer

A)  high dopamine turnover
B)  ​high GABA turnover
C)  ​low serotonin turnover
D)  low substance-P turnover

Question 4

Approach and avoidance responses are modified by output from the amygdala to the ____.​

Accepted Answer

A)  brain stem
B)  ​hypothalamus
C)  ​prefrontal cortex
D)  basolateral nuclei

Question 5

Impulsive behavior and poor decisions are common symptoms of ____.​

Accepted Answer

A)  parietal damage
B)  ​prefrontal damage
C)  ​occipital damage
D)  temporal damage

Question 6

The branch of the autonomic nervous system that is responsible for preparing the body for intense,vigorous,emergency activity is the ____.​

Accepted Answer

A)  somatic nervous system
B)  ​craniosacral nervous system
C)  ​sympathetic nervous system
D)  parasympathetic nervous system

Question 7

Brief activation of the sympathetic nervous system can enhance activity of the immune system.​

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 8

Why do individuals with prefrontal cortex damage often make bad decisions?​

Accepted Answer

A)  They can't understand complexly worded questions.
B)  ​They don't anticipate the unpleasantness of likely outcomes.
C)  ​They conform readily to whatever other people are doing.
D)  They can't predict the consequences of one decision or another.

Question 9

Recognition of an angry expression is faster when the face is directed ____,and a fearful expression is faster if it is directed ____.​

Accepted Answer

A)  toward you; to the side
B)  ​to the side; toward you
C)  ​toward you; toward you
D)  to the side; to the side

Question 10

Some cats "play" with a mouse before killing it.How can this kind of behavior best be explained?​

Accepted Answer

A)  the cat's perverse pleasure in prolonging the mouse's pain
B)  ​an instinctive need for additional pursuit behaviors prior to eating
C)  ​a conflict between attack and escape behaviors
D)  regression to infantile patterns of activity in the hippocampus

Question 11

A startle reflex occurs in response to ____.​

Accepted Answer

A)  grief
B)  ​depression
C)  ​anxiety
D)  an unexpected loud noise

Question 12

Psychologists typically define emotion in terms of three components.​

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 13

According to the ____ theory,we experience emotion after we experience autonomic arousal.​

Accepted Answer

A)  Lange-Jung
B)  ​Lange-Papez
C)  ​James-Jung
D)  James-Lange

Question 14

Briefly describe the James-Lange Theory of Emotion.​

Accepted Answer

According to the James-Lange theory (Jam...

Question 15

Looking at a picture of people showing emotional expressions causes the greatest activity in the ____.​

Accepted Answer

A)  frontal lobe
B)  ​hippocampus
C)  ​fornix
D)  amygdala

Question 16

What did researchers find in Antarctic research scientists who spent a nine-month period of social isolation in the cold and dark?​

Accepted Answer

A)  T cell functioning increased by about 50%
B)  ​T cell functioning decreased by about half
C)  ​leukocytes stopped functioning
D)  an outbreak of autoimmune diseases

Question 17

Chemicals released by the immune system that attack infections and communicate with the brain to elicit anti-illness behaviors are ____.​

Accepted Answer

A)  macrophages
B)  ​cytotoxic cells
C)  ​cytokines
D)  natural killer cells

Question 18

Which effect is likely to result from damage to the amygdala?​

Accepted Answer

A)  lack of a startle response 
B)  ​a normal startle response, but an absence of learned fears
C)  ​an enhanced startle response and an enhanced response to learned fears
D)  a fear response to any novel stimulus

Question 19

Which of the following is characterized by extreme physiological arousal?​

Accepted Answer

A)  locked-in syndrome
B)  ​pure autonomic failure
C)  ​panic attack
D)  prosopagnosia

Question 20

Directly stimulating the ____ of a hamster results in priming it to attack,even without the previous experience of fighting.​

Accepted Answer

A)  corticomedial amygdala
B)  ​cortex
C)  ​temporal lobe
D)  occipital lobe

Exam 11: Emotional Behaviors

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Chemicals released by the immune system that attack infections and communicate with the brain to elicit anti-illness behaviors are ____.​

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Which of the following has been associated with an increased probability of suicide attempts?​

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Which of the following is characterized by extreme physiological arousal?​

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According to the ____ theory,we experience emotion after we experience autonomic arousal.​

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Why do individuals with prefrontal cortex damage often make bad decisions?​

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Some cats "play" with a mouse before killing it.How can this kind of behavior best be explained?​

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Investigators have found that individuals who suffer prefrontal cortex damage ____.​

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Brief activation of the sympathetic nervous system can enhance activity of the immune system.​

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Looking at a picture of people showing emotional expressions causes the greatest activity in the ____.​

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A startle reflex occurs in response to ____.​

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Impulsive behavior and poor decisions are common symptoms of ____.​

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Which effect is likely to result from damage to the amygdala?​

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Briefly describe the James-Lange Theory of Emotion.​

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Individuals who manage to succeed and thrive despite many difficulties may best be described as ____.​

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The branch of the autonomic nervous system that is responsible for preparing the body for intense,vigorous,emergency activity is the ____.​

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Recognition of an angry expression is faster when the face is directed ____,and a fearful expression is faster if it is directed ____.​

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Approach and avoidance responses are modified by output from the amygdala to the ____.​

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