key studies Flashcards
(22 cards)
antonova et al
scopolamine / placebo injection during maze task in fMRI
maguire et al
taxi driver MRI, right posterior positive correlation, right anterior negative correlation
milner and corkin
patient h.m. medial temporal lobe removed, anterograde amnesia
sharot et al
summer and september prompts on those in nyc, if closer experienced flashbulb memories and higher amygdala activation when describing september than summer
draganski et al
mris of jugglers vs non-jugglers, increased medial temporal lobe, pruning after three months
rogers and kesner
rats made familiar with maze, scopolamine physostigmine placebo conditions, scopolamine deficit in encoding, physostigmine deficit in retrieval
caspi et al
interviewed every other year from 1 to 21, questionnaire on stressors from 21 to 26, l/s and s/s had more MDD symptoms if stressed, especially 3+
newcomer et al
160 40 placebo cortisol, listen to and recalled prose paragraph one day, four days, six days after ingestion, high cortisol performed worse
meaney et al
rats stroked 15 minutes a day for 3 weeks when taken from mother, when 2 years old they were placed in a milky pool, not stroked took indirect route out and had accelerated hippocampus neurons loss and cognitive impairments
mcgaugh and cahill
shown 12 slides, half heard emotionally-heightening story for adrenaline and half heard non-emotionally-heightening story, asked to rate how emotion, two weeks later asked details about story, repeated with beta-blockers for emotionally-heightened condition, emotionally-heightening remembered more when not injected
zhou et al
homo/hetero male/female asked to identify sex of PLW three times while smelling cloves, with androstadienone and estratetraenol, identified more masculine/feminine if attracted to that sex
wedekind et al
males wore shirts for two nights with no deodorant, women presented with three similar, one unworn, three dissimilar MHC shirts, scored more pleasant when dissimilar except if on oral contraceptive
fessler et al
pregnant women completed survey, those in first trimester had more disgust sensitivity, nausea and digust correlated positively.
curtis et al
20 photos rated for disgust, images in pairs with one disease-salient, asked who were least likely to share a toothbrush, women more disgusted, disease-salient and less familiar more disgusting
suomi et al
rhesus macaques mother-reared or peer-reared isolated at 6 months, peer-reared had lower cortisol due to HPA burn-out
kendler et al
interviews of swedish twins for MDD symptoms and shared and individual environments, concordance rates higher for MZ twins than DZ, no correlation with how long they lived together.
weissman et al
depressed and non-depressed participants interviewed over 20 years by 2 clinicians for MDD symptoms, grandchildren with 2 preceding depressed generations more likely to develop psychiatric disorders by 12, severity of parent depression correlated with increased mood disorder, if parents depressed by grandparents not there was no impact
glanzer and cunitz one
one of six conditions, hear once or twice at three or six or nine second rate, free recall showed primacy effect for those with more time and recency effect for all
glanzer and cunitz two
15 word lists, at the end either shown a # to recall immediately or number 0 - 9 from which they would count up for 10 or 30 seconds, primacy for all, recency for immediate, 10 second little recency, 30 second no recency
landry and bartling
saw a list of phonologically dissimilar letters in different order, either repeated numbers 1 and 2 at 2 numbers per second or not, articulatory supression task distracted phonological loop, reduced memory
bransford and johnson
ambiguous washing clothes, no title or title before or title after, title before recalled more
brewers and treyens
waited for 35 seconds in an office room with schema congruent and non-congruent items, either wrote items or drew items or read from list and stated what was present, writing and drawing remembered conguent items, verbal remembered more incongruent and some congruent that weren’t in the office
