Emotion
True/False. The area of the brain that relates to emotion and processing of fear is the amygdala.
What is True?
Name a skill that is involved in executive functioning.
What is planning, organizing, monitoring behaviors, regulating behaviors, pays attention, focuses...
What is the acronym or name of the study that uses scores for trauma in children?
During this life stage is one's personality first apparent.
What is infancy?
Name the Temple psychology professor who provided vital developmental brain information on teens to the supreme court cases?
And name one supreme court cases he was involved in that changed criminal sentencing for juveniles.
Who is Lawrence Steinberg?
What is
•Roper v. Simmons, 2005 (abolished death penalty for juveniles)
•Graham v. Florida, 2010 (banned life without parole for juveniles for non-homicide cases)
•Miller v. Alabama, 2012 (banned mandatory life without parole for all juveniles)
True/False--storing memory, telling a lie, and breaking a promise are all part of the limbic system?
What is True?
Decision making, goal-directed behavior, inhibiting impulses, opinion formation... which one of these is NOT an executive function?
What is opinion formation?
These are the two autonomic nervous systems and this is the one that is the fight or flight system?
What are the parasympathetic and sympathetic nervous systems?
What is the sympathetic nervous system?
During infancy and toddlerhood these behaviors reflect a child’s temperament.
What are responsiveness to stimuli, mood quality, activity level, rhythms, etc.
Mirror neurons are thought to be associated with this capacity.
What is empathy?
The ability to make distinctions among emotions that are similar or have the same valence, such as differences between fear and anger, is developed during which life stage.
What is Infancy?
Name an executive function that enhances academic success.
What is gratification delay, memory, attentional control, planning, organization, focus...
What is the hippocampus?
High levels of this personality factor moderate recovery from major health problems.
What is agreeableness? (Will accept flexibility)
When something neutral becomes charged with meaning and expectations it is called this.
What is classical conditioning?
Difficulties regulating emotions results from dysfunction in what area of the brain?
What is the prefrontal cortex?
Auerbach’s research has shown that behavioral markers of vulnerability to ADHD can be seen during this early life stage.
What is prenatally?
This is one physical effect of trauma.
What are somatization, limbic system functioning, hypothalamic-pituary-adrenal activity, neurotransmitter-related dysregulation of arousal, hyperarousal and sleep disturbances?
Women are more prone than men to exhibit this personality disorders.
(even though this question exists, we will all continue to challenge whether this difference is socially constructed in the ways we socialize women)
What is borderline personality disorder?
Prochaska and DiClemente’s transtheoretical model of changes is composed of these five stages
What are pre-contemplation, contemplation, planning, action, maintenance?
What percent of social work professionals from a national survey felt that psychotropic medication was a necessary treatment for many emotional disorders? (options: 5%, 20%, 62%, 81%)
What is 81%?
Behavioral genetic at the Institute for Behavioral Genetics at the University of Colorado found that executive functioning was how heritable? (Options are 9%, 19%, 50%, 99%)
What is 99%?
(So what questions do you have about this finding?)
Excessive devotion to work and productivity to the exclusion of leisure activities and friendships is a characteristic of this personality disorder.
What is obsessive-compulsive personality disorder?
Substance use corrupts which system of the body, leading to what is commonly known as an “addictive personality?”
What is the mesolimbic reward system?