We Tend to Recognize Traumatic or Threatening Situations Very Vividly

question 16

Multiple Choice

We tend to recognize traumatic or threatening situations very vividly. What neuronal mechanisms explain this?

• A) when we are in these situations, we have heightened sensory awareness and therefore the loecus coeruleus directly stimulates LTP in the hippocampus
• B) behavioral arousal creates neocortical cell assemblies directly, bypassing the hippocampus
• C) these situations release gluccocorticoids (stress hormones), which stimulate the formation of hippocampal cell assemblies
• D) the more strongly the input patter of stimulus is, especially with behavioral arousal, the more likely we are to form strong hippocampal cell assemblies