Exam 6: Emotion and Affect

Compared to affects, emotions tend to be relatively simple and automatic.

Anger tends to lead to rejection and social exclusion of the person at whom you are angry.

When a person feels badly because he or she has survived a situation that has caused much suffering to others, then the person is said to be feeling ____.

Affective reactions differ from emotions in a number of ways.For example, affective reactions tend to ____.

Sadness is likely to ____.

The risk-as-feelings hypothesis suggests that ____.

How does disgust act as a behavioural immune system?

Research on gender differences in emotion suggests that ____ may be slightly more emotional, and ____ may be relatively more willing to report and discuss their feelings.

The emotion of disgust is MOST likely to make you willing to ____.

Within social psychological research on emotion, the term 'arousal' is used to refer to ____.

The ability to perceive, access and generate, understand, and reflectively regulate emotions is known as ________________.

One study found that physicians who were given candy were faster and more accurate in diagnosing a case study than physicians who weren't given candy.Additional research suggests that these results can BEST be explained by the idea that ____.

Andile has just been on a long run at the beach with his dog.When he arrives home he is still breathing hard and his heart is still racing; he is physiologically highly aroused.When a neighbour bumps into him in the hallway, Andile completely freaks out and verbally attacks the neighbour.He demands: 'Did you just push me? Do you have a problem, man?' It looks like Andile may have misattributed his arousal (from his run to his neighbour).That is, Andile's behaviour illustrates ____.

Research indicates that most non-human animals ____.

In recent years, there have been a number of cases where police officers in the USA have shot innocent, unarmed citizens.For example, not long ago, an officer of the LAPD shot a 13-year-old boy who was driving a car; the officer later stated that he thought the boy was driving the car toward him as a weapon (and he also stated that he did not register certain major facts of the situation that would have convinced him otherwise).While the officer's behaviour is in no way excusable, does his account line up with what we know about how stress affects behaviour?

According to the textbook, emotional intelligence can be denoted as ____.

According to the text, an affect is different than an emotion in that an affect is ____ while an emotion is ____.

Who is likely to have the strongest disgust reactions?

The degree to which a person experiences the variety and relative abundance of human emotions is referred to as ____.

Routinely repressing, or seeking to conceal, feelings of anger is MOST associated with an increased risk of ____.