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| Arousal (awakening process) |
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| The hypothalamus has 20 seperate nuclei that regulates these functions/motivations.... |
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functions: eating, drinking mating
motivations: hunger satiety, thirst sex |
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| Detecting and responding to threat and danger (e.g. via fear, anger and anxiety) |
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| Cerebral Cortex (Frontal Lobe) |
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| Making plans, setting goals, formulating intentions |
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| Pleasure center associated with socialability, sexuality |
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| The hypothalamus regulates what two systems? |
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| The endocrine and autonomic nervous system. |
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| Adrenal glands - fight or flight hormones |
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| epinephrine and norepinephrine |
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| Communicators of the nervous system |
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| Communicators of the endocrine system |
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| Hormones related to feeding behavior |
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| ghrelin (hunger grrr) and leptin (satisfaction) |
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| The autonomic nervous system controls |
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| involuntary body organs (heart, lungs, liver) |
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| The autonomic nervous system is divided into two systems |
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| sympathetic (alert) and parasympathetic (inhibit) |
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| What is the limbic system involved in |
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| dopamine (good feelings), seratonin (mood and emotion), endorphine (inhibits pain), norephinphrine (arousal and alertness) |
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| BEhavior inhibition system during unexpected events, controls anxiety levels |
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| Avoidance Oriented Structures |
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| Right prefrontal cerebral cortex, amygdala, and hippocampus |
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| Pleasurable feelings associated with Eating, Drinking, Mating |
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| The septo hippocampal circuit..... |
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| Takes over when the hippocampus signals an 'not-okay'mode and generates anxiety. Drugs and alcohol turn this off. |
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| Anterior Cingulate Cortex |
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| Pleasurable experience of reward, hotspot for liking |
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| learning the incentive value of events, making choices |
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| Approach Oriented Structures |
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| Hippocampus, hypothalamus, septal, medial forebrain bundle, Left prefrontal cerebral cortex |
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| Cognitive functions, thinking, planning, and remembering |
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| The limbic brain structures are.... |
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| hypothalamus, amygdala, hippocampus, septal area, ventral tegmental |
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| The amygdala's main three functions |
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1.detects and responds to threatening events.
2. Regulates emotions involved with self preservation.
3. Perception of others emotions. |
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| Right prefrontal cerebral cortex |
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| Withdraw motivational and emotional tendencies |
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| Left prefrontal cerebral cortex |
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| Approach motivational and emotion tendencies |
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| Tend to befriend hormone....hugging touching. All mammels have it. |
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| 3 hormones in the body... |
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| oxytocin (bonding hormone) testosterone (sexual/mating motivation) cortisol (stress hormone) |
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| What has the ability to shut down the hippocampus over time |
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| Medial prefrontal cerebral cortex |
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| Three principles of the motivated and emotion brain |
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1. Specific brain structures generate specific motivational states.
2. Biochemical agents stimulate these brain structures (hormones & neurotransmitters)
3. Day-to-day events stir biochemical agents into action. |
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| actions that are illicited everytime a member of a species is exposed to a same stimulus |
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| The duck guy....Ethologist - |
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