Study Guide Psy260 Final
Emotion
Read the paper (“The emotional brain” Tim Dagleish)
Describe the contributions of James &Lange, Cannon &Bard and Schacter, Darwin, MacLean, Papez to theories of emotion
What do the Downer and Kluver-Bucy experiments show?
Why is fear easy to study?
What is the role of the amygdala in fear?
What is the role of prefrontal cortex in emotion?
Migration & Homing:
Focus on the whole picture.
Read the papers on birds
Migrating Songbirds RecalibrateTheir Magnetic Compass Dailyfrom Twilight CuesWilliam W. Cochran,1* Henrik Mouritsen,2 Martin Wikelski3
and Magnetoreception and its trigeminalmediation in the homing pigeon
Cordula V. Mora1*, Michael Davison2, J.
Read the chapter – it gives bird (and fish and turtle) examples
I will be asking essay questions that will require you to discuss the experimental evidence for some aspect of migration and homing- the more facts you know the easier it is to write a good essay.
For example
1) What is the evidence that birds may depend on more than one compass mechanism?
2) Compare and contrast the roles of learning and innate mechanisms in migration (give examples).
3) Describe the evidence that magnetic information may be useful to many migratory species of birds (or fish or turtles)
4) If birds depend on a magnetic compass why doesn’t the equator confuse them?
VideoSecrets of the Mind (NOVA)
There were at least four vignettes presented in the video. Could you describe one?
(The video is in the library and if you missed it or want to see it again you can
view it in the library).
Amusia
Read the paper
ON-LINE IDENTIFICATION OF CONGENITAL AMUSIA
ISABELLE PERETZ & NATHALIE GOSSELIN…..
What component of music seems to be affected n amusia?
What tasks involving music can amusics do as well as non –amusics?
How common is amusia?
What extraneous variables would you want to check for in a study on amusia and why?
Learning and Memory
What do clinical studies tell us about the distribution of memory in the brain?
What roles do the hippocampi play in memory?
Describe the process of sensitization in Aplysia(short term and long term.)
What is the inferred role of neurogenesis in learning in adults?
Depression, Stress and Neurogenesis
Read the paper (“Brain finally gets into the act” Barry Jacobs)
What is the impact of stress on the hippocampus?
How does this relate to studies on depression?
How is serotonin implicated in the relationship between stress and depression?