Exam 13: Gender,genes,and Culture

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

Lee was momentarily terrified as a passing automobile nearly sideswiped his car. When one of his passengers joked that he almost had a two-color car,Lee laughed uncontrollably. Lee's emotional volatility best illustrates

After hitting a grand-slam home run,Mike noticed that his heart was pounding. Later that evening,after nearly having a collision while driving on the freeway,Mike again noticed that his heart was pounding. That he interpreted this reaction as fear,rather than as ecstasy,can best be explained by the

After Brenda scolded her brother for forgetting to pick her up from school,the physical arousal that had accompanied her anger diminished. Which division of her nervous system mediated her physical relaxation?

The parasympathetic nervous system is to the sympathetic nervous system as ________ is to ________.

Boyd,a suspect in a criminal investigation,has agreed to take a lie detector test. The machine used in this test is most likely to measure his

People who are exuberant and persistently cheerful show increased activity in the brain's ________,which is rich in receptors for the neurotransmitter ________.

Activation of the sympathetic nervous system

Unlike the low-road brain pathway,the high road for emotional responses extends through the

When Mr. Morgan misinterpreted his harmless symptoms of autonomic nervous system arousal as indicative of an impending heart attack,he suffered an unusually intense level of fear. His emotional suffering is best understood in terms of the

(Thinking Critically)Current estimates are that the polygraph is inaccurate approximately ________ of the time.

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

Test performance is typically ________ when physiological arousal is ________.

In the Schachter-Singer experiment,which college men reported feeling an emotional change in the presence of the experimenter's highly emotional confederate?

In an emergency situation,emotional arousal will result in

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.

After being physically aroused by his daily three-mile run,Martin finds that he experiences stronger resentment if his wife asks for an unexpected favor and more intense romantic feelings if she kisses him. Martin's experience can best be explained by the

Rapid fear reactions to sensory input in the absence of conscious thought are possible because certain neural pathways bypass the

Tranquilizing drugs that inhibit sympathetic nervous system activity often effectively reduce people's subjective experience of intense anger or anxiety. Use one of the major theories of emotion to account for the emotion-reducing effects of such tranquilizers. Which theory of emotion would have the greatest difficulty explaining these effects? Why?

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