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Ventromedial Hypothalamus related to eating
Satiety center, "off-switch" for eating
Lateral Hypothalamus related to eating
Hunger center, "on-switch" for eating
What does Anorexia Nervosa entail?
-Resistance to gaining body weight at or above min. norm. weight for age/height. -Fear of gaining weight -Disturbance in the way one experiences/views their body -Amenorrhea (will be removed from DSM V)
What does Bulimia Nervosa entail?
-Recurrent episodes of binge eating -Purging/Non-purging behaviors at least twice a week (on avg.) for 3 months -Self-elvaluation is unduly influenced by body shape/weight
What medication is used to treat Bulimia Nervosa?
Antidepressants (SSRIs)+Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
What is a BMI?
Body Mass Index: Measure of body fat based on height and weight.
How do you calculate someone's BMI?
Weight (in kg.) divided by square of height in meters
What BMI is needed to be considered obese?
30 BMI
What is a drive?
An internal state that arises in response to a dis-equillibrium
What is homeostasis?
The constancy of one's equilibrium and balance
What are Maslow's hierarchy of needs?
Psychological, safety, belongingness, love and esteem, physiological, safety and security, love and belonging, self esteem.
What is an Emotion?
A positive/negative state of arousal in reaction to a perceived or remembered event of object
What are the nervous systems associated with emotion?
-Autonomic Nervous System: Sympathetic and Parasympathetic systems -Limbic System: Hypothalamus and Amygdala -Cerebral Cortex
We feel emotion as a result of ____?
Feedback from the face
What is the James Lange theory of emotion?
Event >Arousal >Interpretation >Emotion
What is the Cannon Bard theory of emotion?
Event >Simultaneous Arousal >Emotion
What is the Schacter-Singer theory of emotion?
Event >Arousal >Reasoning >Emotion
What are the 3 categories of learning?
-Associative (classical and operant conditioning) -Nonassociative (habitualization and sensitization) -Observational Learning (imitation)
What is Classical Conditioning?
-Pavlov's dog -Stimulus-response associations -if stimulus does not continue, the reaction will change or disappear 
Unconditioned stimulus leads to ___?
Un-conditioned response
Unconditioned stimulus is paired with ___?
Conditioned stimulus
Conditioned stimulus leads to ___?
Conditional response
What is Operant Conditioning?
-Thorndike and Skinner -Thorndike's law of effect: behaviors will be repeated if consequences are satisfying and vice versa -Skinner's Cat boxes -The effect certain kinds of behavior have on the frequency of the behavior -Reinforcement
What does Reinforcement do?
Increases the frequency of behavior
What does Punishment do?
Decreases the frequency of behavior
What does Positive Reinforcement pertain to?
Where behavior increases because it is followed by the presentation of a reward
What does Negative Reinforcement pertain to?
The removal or lessening of an unpleasant stimulus because the behavior occurs
What does Positive Punishment pertain to?
Where behavior decreases because it is followed by an aversive consequence
What does Negative Punishment pertain to?
The removal of something positive following at behavior in order to decrease it
What is Latent Learning?
Learning that occurs without obvious reinforcement and that remains unexpressed until reinforcement is provided
What is the order of memory processing?
1. Encoding (mental representation formed in memory) 2. Storage (Retention of encoded material) 3. Retrieval (Recovery of stored material)
What is the capacity of short-term memory?
-The capacity for short-term memory is that it typically stores about seven bits give or take two. -The duration of memory typically lasts for about 20 seconds without rehearsal
What is Rehearsal?
The memory process where the information is repeated over and over again in order to maintain it
What is Chunking?
The memory process of reconfiguring items by grouping them on the basis of similarity or some other organizing principle
What is Implicit Memory?
Availability of information through memory without conscious effort
What is Explicit Memory?
Conscious effort to recover information
What is Declarative Memory?
The factual information such as an event date
What is Procedural Memory?
How tasks were carried out such as riding a bike
What is Working Memory?
Reasoning and language comprehension, maintains your psychological present
What are the 4 components of Working Memory?
Phonological loop, Visuospatial sketchpad, Central executive and Episodic Buffer
How is Short-Term Memory different from the Working Memory?
Short-term remembers the numbers while Working manipulates them.
What is Long-Term Memory?
The storehouse of all experiences, events, information, emotions, skills, words, categories, rules and judgements that have been acquired from sensory and short-term memories
What is Recall?
The reproduction of the information to which you were previously memory
What are Recognition cues?
The realization that a certain stimulus is one you have seen/heard before
What is the Levels of Processing theory?
Information processed at a deeper level is more likely to be retained: -Physical: low level what it looks like -Rhyme: what does it rhyme with? -Meaning: what are the deeper properties, classification
What is the False Memory Effect?
Powerful illusion of memory and shows that what we remember is not always what we correctly encountered with
What is a Flashbulb Memory?
Consistent, accurate, immune to forgetting. Remembering personal contextual information about the event.

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