PSYC 211 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia, Signal Transduction, Basilar Membrane

• School: McGill University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 211
• Professor: Yogita Chaudasama

Document Summary

Another named king louie is strong and frightening . Rafiki higher serotonin levels in csf (less aggressive and less likely to take risks) Higher serotonin increases activity of frontal and decrease activity of amygdala. If you stimulate an unknown part of the amygdala in a rat and it exhibits an emotional fear response. Laternal nucleus: receives info from sensory cortex and relays to basal and central nucleus. Laterla & central nucleus both integrate different components of fear-information. A tone when paired with a shock will cause a rat to freeze when presented alone after. Freezing conditioned response (not tone because it"s a neutral stimulus and after conditioning is a conditioned stimulus and shock is the unconditioned stimulus. Normal animals will freeze when its conditioned stimulus (tone) on its own. So, when the tone is played on the third day on its own, the rat freezes.