Exam 6: Emotion and Affect

Research on falling in love suggests that, compared to women, men ____.

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

When Jack won over $300 million in a Powerball jackpot, many people thought his life would be transformed for the better. Within a few years, however, he was divorced, lost his granddaughter to a drug overdose, was robbed outside a strip club, had lawsuits brought against him for sexual harassment, and encountered numerous other well-publicized problems. Based on the idea of the hedonic treadmill, how would you interpret this?

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

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

Rozin's research in which he presented apple juice that had a sterilized dead cockroach (although the cockroach was removed)to children and adults reveals that ____.

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

Research on guilt indicates that people mainly feel guilty about things that ____.

Matt is generally an unhappy person with a pessimistic outlook on life. After a few years of trying and getting rejected, he finally gets accepted into medical school. For a few months, he is extremely happy. However, he soon returns to his previous, unhappy state. This scenario illustrates the ____.

Suppose that Natalie and her boyfriend get into a huge argument. Natalie goes to the gym and punches a punching bag (imagining the whole time that the punching bag is her boyfriend), hoping to "let off some steam." How much will this approach help?

Anger may be important in two evolutionary senses. First, it is action-motivating. Second, it is________________.

In social psychology, a feeling state that is not linked to any particular event is termed as  ____.

The ability of people to feel varying ranges of intensity in emotional experiences is measured by the________________.

The idea that people maintain relatively constant levels of happiness or unhappiness-regardless of what happens to them-has been referred to as ____.

What role does culture play in parenthood and happiness?

Research on the relationship between emotional experiences suggests that ____.

Which of the following theories of emotion suggests that people may sometimes mislabel or relabel their arousal states?

The most complex form of happiness is  sometimes called ____.

Research suggests that neutral forms of arousal (e.g., arousal induced by caffeine)can generally be converted-via misattribution-into ____. ​

People typically tend to form an affect ____.