Exam 6: Emotion and Affect

For which group(s) is there a strong association between overeating and being in a bad mood?

Are women more emotional than men? Discuss the current research on this topic.In what areas are men and women similar and in what areas are they different? What are the general conclusions from this body of research?

The factor that appears to be most strongly related to happiness is ____.

The term ________________ is used to refer to the frequency of one's positive emotions minus the frequency of one's negative emotions.

The term 'affect balance' refers to the ____.

Men who are high in homophobia tend to exhibit more genital arousal than men who are low in homophobia when watching films of men having sex with one another.

One of the best things to do if you want to feel good and avoid emotional distress is to ____.

The basic arousal states are ____.

Joe's entire neighbourhood was hit by a forest fire last year.While nearly all of the houses in the neighborhood were burnt to a crisp, Joe's house was miraculously spared and left fully intact.If Joe was like most people, he would nonetheless feel very badly that he came out of the fire alright while others suffered so much.That is, he would be feeling a form of ____.

Describe how the arousal associated with emotion influences performance.

Tumi is very upset because she received a poor mark on a big English assignment.It would be most accurate to say that Tumi is experiencing a(n) ____.

While guilt might say, ____, shame would say, ____.

What role does culture play in parenting and happiness?

Of the factors listed below, the strongest predictor of a person's happiness is ____.

Anger's unique motivational properties are believed to be due to its ____.

Research on 'positive psychology' indicates that you may be able to increase your overall level of happiness if you sit down once or twice a week and make a list of ____.

According to the ____ theory of emotion, children with Moebius syndrome, who have a neurological condition that affects their ability to use their facial muscles, should have diminished intensity of their emotions.

Research on happiness and parenting indicates that couples who have children are ____ than couples who do not have children, although ____.

Vusi drinks an extra-large cappuccino just before leaving work and drives home fully pumped with caffeine.While driving, he gets cut off by another car.Vusi becomes extremely angry at the other driver - far angrier than usual.This is because he misinterprets the arousal that he is feeling from the caffeine as anger that he is feeling toward the other driver.That is, he engages in the process of ________________.

Research on the link between happiness and health demonstrates that ____.