Psychology Final Chapter 9

Front 1

A behavioral reaction response to stress is:

Back 1

a change in how one looks or acts

Front 2

The textbook authors define stress as the process of:

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appraising events, assessing potential responses, and responding.

Front 3

Plutchik maintains that adjacent emotions of the emotion wheel:

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blend to form more complex emotions

Front 4

The text suggests that a person who loses a loved one after a long, protracted illness may be much less stressed than someone who experiences the death of a loved one due to an accident because in the second case the death was:

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sudden

Front 5

Personality factors linked to hypertension include a tendency to:

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suppress anger

Front 6

We may be able to demonstrate superhuman strength:

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during the alarm reaction stage of the GAS

Front 7

Which of the following is a component of the alarm reaction?:

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Adrenalin is secreted

Front 8

In Schachter and Singer's research with suproxin, the subjects who were given the drug and were not correctly informed as to the effects of the drug:

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labeled their "arousal" according to the behavior of the confederate

Front 9

According to James and Lange, we become angry because we:

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act aggressively

Front 10

Cancer is believed to result from:

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a DNA malfunction that produces runaway cell growth

Front 11

According to the Schachter-Singer theory, if physiological arousal is induced artificially through the use of drugs people will:

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experience an emotion if there is something to which they can attribute the emotion to

Front 12

Hypertension means:

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high blood pressure

Front 13

According to Plutchik's emotion wheel, which of the following is one of the primary emotions?

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Fear

Front 14

Any illness that causes a narrowing of the arteries feeding the heart muscles is known as:

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coronary heart disease (CHD)

Front 15

The two Type A traits that seem to play an especially important role in coronary heart disease are:

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hostility and expression of aggression

Front 16

Plutchik's theory of emotions claims that basic or ________ emotions can combine to produce ________ emotions.

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primary; secondary

Front 17

Ekman's research using actors suggests that:

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four negative emotions, anger, fear, disgust, and sadness, have distinctly different physiological responses

Front 18

The first stage of the general adaptation syndrome is the:

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alarm reaction

Front 19

You are home alone at night and begin to cry. You then know that you are sad. This supports the ________ theory of emotion

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James-Lange

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Joy, anger, fear, and disgust are part of the ________ process of emotion

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subjective