Exam 35: Introduction to Emotion

When her son fails to arrive home as expected, Elena fears he has been in an accident. Both her heart and respiration rate remain elevated until she sees him come safely through the door. Her body soon returns to normal due to the action of her ________ nervous system.

A lie detector test is used to monitor a person's

Research on the accuracy of lie detector tests suggests that they

Which division of the nervous system calms the body after an emergency has passed?

Evidence that emotion precedes physiological arousal would be most inconsistent with the ________. Evidence that emotion precedes mentally labeling our physiological arousal would be most inconsistent with the ________.

An approach to lie detection that assesses a suspect's physiological response to details of a crime known only to police investigators is called the

Who suggested that "we feel sorry because we cry . . . afraid because we tremble"?

In their dispute over the role of cognition in emotion, both Zajonc and Lazarus agree that

Which of the following was NOT presented in the text as evidence that some emotional reactions involve no deliberate, rational thinking?

Tranquilizing drugs that inhibit sympathetic nervous system activity often reduce people's subjective experience of intense anxiety. Which theory of emotion would have the greatest difficulty explaining this effect?

According to the James-Lange theory, we experience emotion ________ we notice our physiological arousal. According to the Cannon-Bard theory, we experience emotion ________ we become physiologically aroused.

A hormone that increases heart rate, blood pressure, and blood sugar levels in times of emergency is

(Thinking Critically) The polygraph measures

A psychologist would have the greatest difficulty differentiating between anger and fear by monitoring the ________ associated with each.

The two-factor theory of emotion was proposed by

The two-factor theory of emotion would have difficulty explaining why a

Which of the following research findings would be consistent with the James-Lange theory of emotion?

Which theory suggests that you would not experience intense anger unless you were first aware of your racing heart or other symptoms of physiological arousal?

Test performance is typically ________ when physiological arousal is ________.

A therapist tells a patient who is afraid of elevators that his rapid breathing while on an elevator is not due to fear but is a natural consequence of too little oxygen in a small, enclosed space. With this new interpretation of his arousal, the patient no longer dreads elevators. The reduction in the patient's fear is best understood in terms of the