PSYC 380 Quiz 3: Emotions, Behavior, Learning and Memory
- Which type of leukocyte destroys tumor cells and cells infected with viruses?
- Which type of leukocyte attaches to an intruder and produces a specific antibody to attack the intruder’s antigen?
- Which type of leukocyte matures in the bone marrow and produces antibodies to attack specific targets?
- Professor Remko tells his class that aggressive behavior in males has been shown to be linked to levels of _____.
- Psychologists typically define emotion in terms of the following components: ____.
- Why do humans suffer from sleepiness, decreased muscle activity, and decreased sex drive during illness?
- Hans Selye’s defined stress in terms of ____.
- According to the ____ theory, we experience emotion after we experience autonomic arousal.
- Selye inferred that any threat to the body, in addition to its specific effects, activated a generalized response to stress, which he called the
- Which effect is likely to result from damage to the amygdala?
- One of the main differences between natural killer cells and T cells is that natural killer cells ____.
- A research study linked different genes for the enzyme MAOA to the probability of antisocial behavior. The effect of the gene varied from small to great, depending on what?
- Individuals who manage to succeed and thrive despite many difficulties may best be described as ____.
- A study administering testosterone to women found which of these effects?
- Not all children who are abused become violently aggressive in adolescence or adulthood. Of the following, which has been demonstrated to influence violence by these people?
- Approach and avoidance responses are modified by output from the amygdala to the ____.
- Leukocytes identify intruder cells by their ____
- Which of the following has been associated with an increased probability of suicide attempts?
- According to a number of animal studies, under which condition is the probability of violent behavior greatest?
- The immune system’s way of telling the brain that the body is ill is by way of ____.
- Hippocampal damage has the greatest effect on ____.
- Lashley trained rats on a variety of mazes, then made deep cuts in their cortexes. He found that the cuts produced ____.
- Structures formed from degenerating axons and dendrites are referred to as ____.
- Vivian gives her child candy after she cleans up her room. The candy is an example of _____.
- Studies on ____ help clarify the distinctions among different kinds of memory and enable us to explore the mechanisms of memory.
- What is confabulation?
- What area of the brain is particularly important for coding spatial information?
- Serena is a chronic alcoholic who has developed Korsakoff’s syndrome. She has damaged her neurons in the _____ which sends information to her _____ cortex.
- Nanci stimulated the gills of an Aplysia by squirting them with a brief jet of seawater, at first, it will ____.
- Producing long-term potentiation of cells in the mammalian nervous system requires ____.
- Amyloid is to ____ as tau is to ____.
- Forgetting events prior to the time of brain damage is a characteristic of ____ amnesia.
- If a stimulus is presented repeatedly, followed by no other stimulus, the animal will gradually stop responding. This is known as
- When Loy was first learning to drive, she had to think about it step-by-step. Now, she can drive automatically thanks to the work of her
- Why is the Aplysia such a popular animal for single-cell studies of learning?
- Alzheimer’s is associated with brain damage as a result of ____.
- A study of patients with amnesia reveals that people ____.
- A rat is placed in a radial maze in which it has already been trained for many trials. As compared to rats without damage to their hippocampus, rats with damage are more likely to
- In studies of eyelid conditioning in rabbits, Thompson and his colleagues have demonstrated that learning for this conditioned response takes place in the
- What is one explanation for why Lashley failed at finding the engram?