Final Biopsych Exam

Is cortisol increased or decreased at the end of stress?

Classical conditioning involves the ___ (skeletal musculature) and ___ (emotional response)

What behaviors would we expect of an animal with good memory skills?

What is the difference between an opioid vs opiate?

Perforant Path originates from the cortex

What is true about Animats?

What neurotransmitters and hormones are released to activate the body for responding to stress (fight or flight)?

What is the role of the Dentate Gyrus in memory

Electrical stimulation of the Perforant path leads to INCREASED or DECREASED DG response

What is NOT a con or “the bad” aspect of stress?

types of memories associated with implicit memory

True or false: the sympathetic nervous system is activated at the end of stress.

Altered Circadian Rhythms of cortisol are _____ in depression?

Do neurons firing together become weaker or stronger?

What neurotransmitter is released to return the body to its normal state?

looking at a map is semantic memory

Different areas of the brain contribute to different forms of memory.

What is the role of magnesium in Long-Term Potentiation

what is infantile amnesia?

How are the circadian rhythms of cortisol release altered in PTSD?

Manipulation increase LTP impair memory

Opioids increase or decrease potassium activity?

Is stress “any circumstance that upsets our body’s natural internal balance”?

What 2 actions are generated by the nucleus accumbens?

What is Declarative/Explicit Memory

True or false: Depression’s key features are depressed mood and anhedonia.

opioids used long term lead to...

What is the Default Mode Network?

What neuron transmitter is produced in the VTA?

What Suppresses GR expression and increases stress reponse?

Antidepressants ______ struggling duration in Porsolt Swim Test.

Name two brain regions associated with opioids

What is NOT a symptom of PTSD?

Glucocorticoid Receptors (GR) are receptors in the brain for _____.

What is pattern separation?

procedural memory involved the___because it's responsible for ___ & ___.

What is NOT an effect that the sympathetic nervous system has on the body?

The Perforant Path synapses with the ______ of the Hippocampus.

How is the prefrontal cortex involved in the reward pathway?

What is drug addition?

What is the role of glutamate receptors in Long-Term Potentiation?

What is NOT one of the three conditions in Walter's study (2001)?

Manipulations enhance LTP enhance memory

What two behaviors are being measured in the Porsolt Swim Test?

What is NOT an effect that the parasympathetic nervous system has on the body?

True or false: the process from stress to cortisol is a positive feedback loop.

“Increasing levels of cortisol signal the ____ and ____ to STOP further production of cortisol.”

Opioids increase or decrease calcium release?

What neurotransmitters are NOT involved in depression?

The reward pathway consist of these three parts of the brain:

What is NOT an example of stress?

What is adult neurogenesis?

The left brain is involved in positive emotion and the right brain is involved in what…