Psych 7A: Chapter 12

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Which of the following is NOT one of the basic components of emotion identified in the text?

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pupil contraction

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Ten-year-old Vito tells his friend, “When you notice that your knees knock, your hands sweat, and your stomach is in knots, then you really get scared.” This statement best illustrates the

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James-Lange theory

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According to the Cannon-Bard theory, the experience of an emotion

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occurs simultaneously with physiological arousal.

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Which theory states that emotion results from the cognitive labeling of our physiological arousal?

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two-factor

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Which division of the nervous system arouses the body and mobilizes its energy in emotionally stressful situations?

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the sympathetic nervous system

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Turning in at her street, Dominique saw six fire trucks in front of her apartment building. Her heart beat wildly untilsomeone yelled, “Just a false alarm.” Her pulse then began to return to normal, due to the action of her ________nervous system.

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parasympathetic

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The emotions of anger and fear involve similar

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patterns of automatic arousal

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A small cluster of neurons, the nucleus accumbens, is highly active when people experience

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pleasure

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Mr. Hanson is strongly suspected of embezzling money from his employer. He has denied the allegation. To determinewhether he is lying, investigators are most likely to ask Mr. Hanson to take a(n) ________ test.

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polygraph

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One problem with the use of the polygraph for lie detection is that

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anxiety, irritation, and guilt feelings all prompt similar physiological reactivity

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Although newspapers reported that a murder victim had been stabbed with a knife, two police investigators knew thatthe actual murder weapon was a letter opener. While carefully monitoring the changes in heart rate and perspirationlevel of a prime suspect, the investigators asked him if he typically used a letter opener on his mail. The investigatorswere making use of the

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guilty knowledge test

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Whether we feel angry or depressed in response to a low exam grade depends on whether we attribute the poor grade toan unfair test or to our own low intelligence. This best illustrates that emotions are influenced by

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cognitive appraisals

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Couples who are passionately in love most frequently communicate intimacy by means of

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prolonged eye gazes

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The most unambiguous nonverbal clue to our specific emotional state is provided by our

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facial muscles

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The facial expressions associated with particular emotions are

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same throughout the world

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North Americans are more likely than Japanese citizens to display their feelings openly. This cultural difference bestreflects the American culture's greater emphasis on

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individuality

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Researchers have found that people experience cartoons as more amusing while holding a pen with their teeth thanwhile holding it with their lips. This best illustrates the

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james-lange theory

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When Laura acts happy, she experiences increased feelings of cheerfulness. This best illustrates

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the behavior feedback phenomenon

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The emotion of sadness is characterized by negative valence and ________ arousal.

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low

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In experiments with adult monkeys who were fearful of snakes and their offspring who were not, Susan Minekadiscovered that the younger monkeys developed a fear of snakes through the process of

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observational learning

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People are most biologically predisposed to learn to fear

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spiders

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If intense fears of specific objects disrupt people's ability to cope, they are said to experience

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phobias

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The catharsis hypothesis refers to the idea that

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anger is reduced by aggressive action or fantasy

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Experts suggest that an intensely angry person should

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take time to let the anger and emotional arousal subside.

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Mrs. Chen asks her teenage son, Keith, to rake the leaves in the yard. Keith is most likely to want to help his motherafter

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receiving news that he has just won $1000 in a state lottery.

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A sense of satisfaction with life is known as

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the feel-good, do-good phenomenon

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People's positive emotions typically ________ between the early and middle hours of the day and typically ________between the middle and late hours of the day.

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rise;fall

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. Over the long run, our satisfaction with life is typically ________ by a tragic event and ________ by a dramaticallypositive event.

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decreased;increased

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Our tendency to judge various stimuli relative to those we have previously experienced is called

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Adaptation-level phenomenon

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When Mrs. Van Dyke first acquired a new luxury car, she was ecstatic. After several months, however, she took the carfor granted and it gave her little sense of emotional excitement. This change in her feelings can best be explained interms of

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the adaption-level phenomenon

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The concept of relative deprivation refers to the perception that

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one is worse off than those with whom one compares oneself

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You were happy with your grade of B on the psychology test until you learned that almost everyone else in the classreceived an A. This illustrates that happiness is influenced by

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relative deprivation

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Research suggests that people experience the most happiness when they are

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engaged in challenging activities

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Researchers have found that certain factors are related to happiness. One of these is that happy people tend to

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have a satisfying marriage or close friendship

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Differences among people's self-reported happiness levels are MOST strongly related to

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genetic differences