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Limbic System
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Psychology
Undergraduate 4
11/14/2007

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Limbic System components?
Definition
cingulate gyrus,fornix, ol factory, thalmus, hippocampus, hypothalmus, amygdala and mammilary body
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insula
Definition
cortex that lies within the lateral fissure, tells you whether you like things or not and to what extent
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What are the two parts of the emotional situation and what do they do?
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Amygdala system, implicit emtional memory (why you have that emotion)

Hippocampal System - explicit memory about emtional situation (consolidation facts)

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amygdala
Definition
Amgydala is in temporal lobe,
Stores our memories about how to have emotions, inherit strucutre of amygdala which influences how you express love and feel angry, and also learn from others
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Odors and ol factory bubls?
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Odors usually have emtional ties, blubs are very to amygdala

 

 

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What is vigiliance?
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attentive to senosry stimuli coming in, maintianed by amgydala, driven by fear and novelty or strange things

 

increases information gathering and processing and judges casual relationships between biologically relevent stimuli

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myelination of amygdala?
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myelinated too fast, when born stores of emtional memory but not why we have these emotions.  Hippocampus doesn't myelinate to store memories until a few years of age.

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What happens first, sight or feeling?
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images may bypass visual cortex so we can respond faster, feel emotions before you know what it is

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what does amygdala feedback tell you...

Definition
how to respond to emotions
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is your memory always correct?
Definition

enhances sensory input, tends to be a more exagerated in memory than how it acutally happened

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how do individuals with social phobias react to neutral faces?

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exagerated amgydala response but does acutally feel more afraid, seperate emotional with physiologicla response

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What does research show in children who are inhibited vs nonihibited in terms of adult responses to stimuli?
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Children who have inhibited temperament (stay away from unknown) as adults show exagerated amygdala response compared with those who were not inhibited, especially towards novel

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What is a surgical way to treat OCD?
Definition
to leision the cingulate gyrus
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Cingulate gyrus

Definition

Becomes active to tell you if something is pleasant or unpleasnt (tells us how we feel)

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When does the level of insula start to dissapate?
Definition
when you don't like something anymore
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Stendhal Syndrome

Definition
syndrome that causes people to have heart palpitations, confusion and even hallucinations when exposed to art
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