Exam 6: Emotion and Affect

Extreme stress negatively impacts people's judgment and performance because it leads people to ____.

Emotions comprise an important and powerful feedback system.

When a person feels bad because he or she has lived through a challenging situation that others did not, then the person is said to be feeling ____.

A Duchenne smile is best described as a(n)____. ​

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

According to the ____ hypothesis, people tend to evaluate things as good or bad by asking themselves, "How do I feel about it?"

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

Daisy is trying to decide if a job offer she has just received is a good or bad offer. I just don't feel good about it , she thinks. Based on this feeling, Daisy decides it is a bad offer. Daisy's decision process is consistent with the ________________ hypothesis.

Emotional intelligence can be denoted as ____.

________________ is defined as the ability to be open to feelings and to modulate them in oneself and others so as to promote personal understanding and growth.

The risk-as-feelings hypothesis states that ____.

Broadly speaking, in considering the link between emotions and decision-making, it appears that anticipated emotions tend to ____ decision-making, while current emotional states tend to ____ decision-making.

A study examined short biographies that were written by nuns in 1930. The study found that the nuns who ____ in their biographies had lived about 10 years longer than the nuns who did not.

Most researchers describe affect as ____.

Martina is having dinner at a restaurant. By the time she finishes her meal and is ready to go home, she notices that it is rather late. She wonders if it would be safe for her to walk back home at such a late hour. After considering the dangers of walking alone, Martina decides to take a cab instead. In this scenario, Martina makes her decision based on the ____.

In a well-known study conducted by Schachter and Singer, participants were injected either with a stimulant or a placebo and were then exposed to a highly emotional stimulus. It was found that participants showed the strongest emotional reactions when ____.

David has been in a joyful mood all month. According to the broaden-and-build hypothesis of positive emotions, ____.

There are at least ____ basic arousal states that feel quite different.

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

How is guilt different from shame? Explain with two examples.