Exam 6: Emotion and Affect

Research on repressing versus venting anger shows that ____.

Paul Ekman's research indicates that ____.

According to the ________________, people judge something as good or bad by asking themselves the question, "How do I feel about it?"

Suppose you are feeling a positive emotion such as "relief" (e.g., you thought your wallet had been stolen but realized 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?

Anya is trying to predict how upset she would be if she got into a car accident and her car was completely totaled. Psychologists would say that Anya is engaging in affective forecasting. ​

Affect differs from emotion in that affect is ____, while emotion is ____.

The concept of emotional intelligence has to do with one's ability ____.

Which of the following items would be most likely to be found on the AIM instrument?

Research suggests that people often seek to cultivate neutral moods (rather than positive or negative moods)when they are about to interact with ____. ​

Research on the emotions of guilt and shame suggests that, while guilt is usually ____, shame is usually ____.

How do positive emotions impact problem-solving? Research suggests that being in a good mood ____.

A study allowed participants to draw from various decks of cards. For some decks, the cards generally signaled a "win" of a small amount of money. Other decks dealt with larger amounts, but you could win or lose money. In this study, the people who lacked emotion tended to ____.

Research suggests that people typically seek to cultivate positive moods prior to social interactions with a stranger.

Research on the objective and subjective predictors of happiness indicates that ____ has only a weak relationship to happiness, but ____ is a strong predictor of happiness. ​

Overall happiness tends to ____. ​

The James-Lange theory has difficulty accounting for the ____.

In general, people "get over" ____ and return to their typical pre-event level of happiness.

When people are extremely aroused, their work performance often suffers. Research suggests that this is likely because extremely aroused people ____.

The Yerkes-Dodson law addresses ____.

Someone might be a happy person because he enjoys many positive emotional experiences or because she hardly ever feels bad emotions. What do social psychologists use to measure this level of happiness?