Exam 6: Emotion and Affect

Suppose that, at your 60th high school reunion, you gather together the class photos and relate your classmates' facial expressions to their mortality rates.Based on the study of baseball players, what would you expect to find?

Research on sexual arousal indicates that the link between (a) self-reported sexual arousal and (b) physiological measures of arousal in the genitals is ____.

In what way is anger different from contempt?

According to the ________________ theory of emotion, 'We feel sorry because we cry, angry because we strike, [and] afraid because we tremble.'

Research on gender differences in emotions has found that ____.

Supposed that Nandi has to go to the hospital today to visit her cousin.He has a number of medical problems and has been in a depressed slump for months.Nandi is sort of dreading seeing him.In anticipation of the visit, before leaving the house, Nandi is therefore likely to engage in affect regulation by putting herself in a(n) ________________ mood.

Mandla is a very powerful CEO.When he conducts a meeting, if he so much as frowns, the other people in the room behave so as to stop the potential conflict they see coming based on that frown.This reaction to Mandla's anger illustrates the ____ aspect of anger.

The feeling of ________________ will lead a person to lower a selling price and increase a payment price.

The idea that people remain at about the same level of happiness across time - regardless of what happens to them - is known as the ________________.

Researcher Paul Ekman and his colleagues have suggested that there are six basic emotions.Which of the following is NOT one of these?

Is the physiological arousal that people have when they are emotional actually the same for all emotions? Current research suggests that ____.

Which of the following is an example of a low arousal and pleasant emotion?

Suppose that you are feeling a positive emotion such as 'relief' (e.g.you thought your purse had been stolen, but realised it wasn't) or 'joy' (e.g.you just heard that your older sister had a baby).Would it be possible for that emotion to be converted into another emotion via excitation transfer?

Maria woke up this morning feeling grouchy and annoyed.When asked why she is feeling this way, she can't seem to come up with any particular reason.It would be most accurate to say that she is experiencing a(n) ____.

Judgements about the moral virtue of ____ are most associated with the emotion of disgust.

According to the ________________ law, the relationship between arousal and performance is best described by an inverted U-shaped curve; arousal helps performance up to a point, but too much arousal hurts performance.

When social psychologists talk about quick and automatic reactions that are simply positive or negative (as opposed to being full-blown, complex feelings), they are talking about ____.

Which of the following theories of emotion inspired the facial feedback hypothesis?

Suppose that you get a creepy feeling every time you take the bus at night.Even if you have never heard about anything scary happening on the bus at night, you might end up using this feeling to form a judgement that riding the bus at night is a bad thing.Forming a judgement in such a way would be consistent with ____.

According to the text, emotions tend - on the whole - to ____.