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Chapter 18 Brain Mechanisms of Emotion
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Chapter 18 Brain Mechanisms of Emotion
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Chapter Eighteen Brain Mechanisms of Emotion1. Which is true of the Cannon-Bard theory of emotion? Choose the correct option.
A) Emotional experience is a response to physiological changes in the body.
B) Emotion is evoked by a situation, and the body changes in response to the emotion.
C) Emotional experience can be independent of emotional expression.
D) Sensory inputs have no influence on emotional experience.
2. What is the most common symptom of amygdala lesions in humans? Choose the correct
option.
A) Kl~verBucy syndrome
B) Emotional disturbances such as spontaneous crying
C) Placid demeanor
D) Inability to recognize the facial expression of fear
3. What led to the belief that anterior thalamus plays an important role in emotion? Choose
the correct option.
A) The observation that lesions in the anterior thalamus led to spontaneous laughing
and crying
B) The observation that tumors in the anterior thalamus led to fear, irritability, and
depression
C) The observation that the anterior thalamus is affected by the virus responsible for
rabies
D) The observation that the anterior thalamus governs the behavioral expression of
emotion
4. What is the empirical evidence for the experience of unconscious emotions? Choose
the correct option.
A) James Papez proposed a link between cingulate cortex (emotional experience) and
the hypothalamus (emotional expression) in what is called the Papez circuit.
B) Experiments by Heinrich Kl~ver and Paul Bucy using temporal lobectomy
in rhesus monkeys demonstrated the Kluver-Bucy syndrome.
C) Experiments by Ame Ohman, Ray Dolan, and their colleagues showed
autonomic responses to angry faces that had not been consciously perceived.
D) Experiments by Joseph LeDoux showed the effects of fear conditioning
and learned visceral responses.
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