Craving Is Associated with Level of Activation of the ______

question 41

Multiple Choice

Craving is associated with level of activation of the ______ in response to _______.

• A) amygdala; pain
• B) medial prefrontal cortex; cocaine
• C) ventral tegmental area; stress
• D) ventral tegmental area; water intake
• E) anterior cingulate; pain

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Definitions:

Automatic Processing

Mental activities that occur without conscious awareness or effort, such as habituated tasks or recognized patterns.

Effortful Processing

The active and conscious effort to encode or process information into memory, requiring attention and mental effort.

Encoding

The initial process of converting information into a form that can be stored in memory, involving various types of code such as visual, acoustic, or semantic.

Sensory Memory

The immediate, very brief recording of sensory information in the memory system.