Exam 12: Motivation and Work

Trying to reduce stress by avoiding or ignoring a stressor is most characteristic of

With regard to emotions, Darwin believed that

Andrea's physician has suggested that a program of relaxation training would provide the best treatment for her high blood pressure. The physician probably considers Andrea's hypertension to be a(n) ________ illness.

Which of these factors have researchers NOT found to correlate with happiness?

When the mayor ordered a salary increase for the city's police officers, there was a sudden loss of morale among the city's firefighters. The firefighters' sudden dissatisfaction best illustrates

Rosaria is upset with her husband for not putting his dirty clothes in the laundry basket. Anger experts would most likely recommend that she deal with her frustration by saying to him

Which of the following is true regarding gestures and facial expressions?

The disease- and infection-fighting cells of the immune system are

Research on the nonverbal expression of emotion indicates that

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

The first phase of the general adaptation syndrome is

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.

Physical and emotional responses to threatening and challenging events are referred to as

We sometimes interpret our arousal before experiencing a complex emotional reaction such as hatred. These complex emotional reactions follow a neural pathway from

Religiously active AIDS patients ________ than do their nonreligious counterparts.

The macrophage and lymphocytes are major agents of the

Behavioral and medical knowledge about factors influencing health form the basis of the field of

Aerobic exercise is associated with

Undergraduate women who had been sexually abused as children were especially likely to report health problems if they had

Eyeblinks ________ during lie telling, and those who are lying use ________ first- person pronouns.