Emotional Behaviors
Darwins view on emotions was that...
emotions are innate (includes facial and body expressions)
This is the brain structure that encodes information into LTM
hippocampus
Men are diagnosed with ASD ___ times more often than women
four
This is when two different patterns compete for your attention and perception.
Binocular rivalry
This causes people to feel emotions less intensely.
Autonomic failure
Trying to understand what one of your test questions is asking is an example of...
working memory
For what disorder are people's corpus calosum severed to fix?
epilepsy
Achromatic prosopagnosia is
not a real thing
This structure learns what choice has the higher pay off
basal ganglia
These are the six basic emotions.
sad, surprise, disgust, happy, anger, fear
This is one way of eliminating the recency effect
throwing in a distraction after the information is given
Williams syndrome symptoms include proficiency in ________________ , but deficits in ____________
language abilities, intellectual abilities
This combination of hormones leads to aggression
high testosterone and low cortisol
If a child is deaf when they are young, what deficit will they experience later on in life?
they will never have full proficiency in a language
Emotion occurring in the body than the brain is consistent with this theory.
James- Lange Theory
Systems consolidation in the cortex allows us to
recognize familiar stimuli later on
Name one unique task a split-brain patient can complete
drawing two separate drawings at the same time
Too much right hemisphere activation can be associated with...
more negative affect/ negative emotions due to excessive self- reflection
This area responds best to written language
visual word form area
This could occur if the sympathetic nervous system is highly active.
panic attacks
These structures are involved in moral decision making
medialorbitofrontal cortex, amygdala, angular gyrus, medial frontal gyrus
Damage to the left hemisphere effects this aspect of language/ speaking
comprehending the meaning of language