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Cognitive Psyc Ch8
pt 4 of review for exam 2 (ch 5-8)
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Psychology
Undergraduate 4
10/23/2011

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relatively brief episodes of synchronized bodily, facial expression, and/or subjective evaluative responses that indicate the evaluation of an internal or external event as significant
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emotions
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a diffuse affective state that us most pronounced as a change in subjective feeling
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mood
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relatively enduring, affectively colored beliefs, preferences, and predispositions toward objects or persons
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attitudes
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a component of some affective response and is indicated by the inclination to act
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motivation
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bodily changes that can occur in emotion (ex: asleep, relaxed, excited)
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arousal
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subjective quality of the emotional response to a specific object or event (ex: pleased, disgusted, indifferent)
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valence
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Ekman proposed 6 basic universal emotions:
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anger, disgust, fear, happiness, sadness, surprise
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_____ model says that we experience emotions on continuum. in addition to the basic six emotions, other affective states can be defined as composites of a certain level of arousal and a certain level of valence.
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Circumplex Model
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according to the Circumplex Model...
Amygdala = _______ & Orbitofrontal cortex = ______
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arousal ; valence
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____-_____ model says that different emotions lead to different goals for actions
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Approach-withdrawal Model
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a self report is an example of ____ assessment
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direct
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skin conductance response and potential eyeblink startle are _____ assessments
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indirect
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part of peripheral nervous system responsible for maintaining homeostasis in the body
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Autonomic Nervous System
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2 branches of the Autonomic Nervous System
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Sympathetic and Parasympathetic
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promotes "fight or flight" response ; arousal and energy generation
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Sympathetic branch
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promoted "rest and digest" response ; calms nerves and increases digestion
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Parasympathetic branch
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____ ____ are stimuli whose motivational properties occur naturally and do no need to be learned
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primary reinforcers
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____ ___ are stimuli whose motivational properties occur through learning
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secondary reinforcers
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Ivan Pavlov used ______ _____ on his dogs.
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classical conditioning
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2 types of classical conditioning
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Autonomic Conditioning and Evaluative Conditioning
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____ conditioning is expressed through bodily responses; fear conditioning; can occur without awareness; rapid extinction
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Autonomic Conditioning
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____ conditioning is expressed as a preference or attitude; used in advertising; can occur without awareness; very slow extinction
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Evaluative Conditioning
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____ or _____ conditioning is when the frequency of behavior increases or decreases depending on the outcome of that behavior (reward or punishment)
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instrumental or operant conditioning
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known as the reward circuit
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mesolimbic dopamine pathway
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____ or _____ conditioning does not require direct experience because it is learning through example, often via language or seeing someone
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Instructional or Observational
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damage to the ______ prevents a person from experiencing fear.
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amygdala
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___ ____ says that repetition of a stimulus over time makes it more likeable and it doesn't require recollection of previous exposure to the same stimuli. Can occur without awareness. Too much exposure can cause likeability to decrease
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mere exposure
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the insula and basal ganglia have to do with the emotion _____.
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disgust
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the ventral striatum and dopamine have to do with the emotion ____.
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anger
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______ enhances our ability to store memories.
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Arousal
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____, prolonged and extreme arousal, impairs memory.
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stress
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individuals suffering from depression or post traumatic stress disorder show impaired memory because they have endured long period of stress resulting in _____ _____.
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hippicampal atrophy
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when you draw a blank on a test question, it has to do with the _____ reducing the firing rate of neurons in the hippocampus.
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glucocorticoids
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____-____ ______ _____ explains why your can recall happy events when you're in a good mood and sad/bad events when you're in a bad mood.
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Mood-congruent Memory Effect
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______ _____ are perceptually vivid, photograph-like memories with strong episodic content (can change over time, but high arousal leads to more accurate memories)
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flashbulb memories
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when neutral and emotional stimuli are present and the task is focused on neutral stimuli, performance ____. But if the task is focused on emotional stimuli, performance ____.
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drops ; improves
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emotional content of faces if processed ____ attention if deployed
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before
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there are ____ /_____ connections between the amygdala and sensory cortices
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feed-forward/ feed-back
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