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6. What did Dutton and Avon's study of sexual attraction in fearful situations show

  • That the psychological attributes of the fear autonomic response can be misinterpreted as other emotions in different contexts
  • None of the above
  • That the fear response is always interpreted as a fear response
  • That context does not alter the fear response

7. Why is pain important

  • To learn fight or flight response
  • To sharpen the senses
  • Learning a negative response to avoid the harmful stimulus in the future
  • None of the above

8. Which of the following is NOT a property of the orbitofrontal cortex

  • Associations with feeling of regret
  • All of the above
  • Processing negative words
  • Computing motivational value of rewards

9. How does a polygraph detector work

  • A - By detecting increased physiological state caused by suppressing truth
  • D- None of the above
  • B - By analysing speech rate and fluctuations
  • C - Both A and B

10. Why do we have emotion

  • To communicate with others
  • To monitor and adjust behaviour accordingly
  • None of the above
  • To aid memory

11. Which of the following neurotransmitters is most associated with reward

  • None of the above
  • Dopamine
  • GABA
  • Serotonin

12. Dopamine production is associated most with which area

  • Substantia Nigra
  • Anterior Cingulate Gyrus
  • Ventral Tegmental Area
  • Caudate

13. Kluver-Bucy syndrome can be best described as

  • A blunting of emotional responses, including impaired fear, anger, and disgust recognition
  • Lack of sense of direction
  • Blindness in one field of vision
  • An inability to perceive faces

14. Which of the following are physical responses to arousal

  • All of the above
  • Pupil dilation
  • Increased heart rate
  • Increased SCR

15. Kluver-Bucy syndrome is caused by

  • Bilateral lesions in the amygdala
  • A right hemisphere lesion to the amygdala
  • None of the above
  • Bilateral lesions to the anterior cingulate cortex

16. Which of the following is NOT a property of the amygdala

  • It receives rapid visual input from the thalamus
  • It is a critical component of the emotion system
  • Its processing is conscious
  • It quickly detects threat

17. The ventral striatum can be best described as

  • None of the above
  • The face processing area
  • The reward centre
  • The language centre

18. Which of the following muscles is associated with positive facial expressions

  • Bicep
  • Zygomaticus
  • Corrigator
  • None of the above

19. Which of the following areas is most associated with the emotional aspects of pain

  • Anterior Cingulate Cortex
  • Ventral Tegmental Area
  • Basal Ganglia
  • Thalamus

20. Which of the following is NOT a basic emotion, as described by Eckman (1992)

  • Anger
  • Happiness
  • Contempt
  • Anxiety