Exam 6: Emotion and Affect

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

What theme is supported by the fact that children learn to conceal their emotions as they grow up?

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

Which of the following statements about emotions and learning is most accurate?

Research indicates that most non-human animals ____.

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

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

Martin is a very powerful company president. 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 Martin's anger illustrates the ____ aspect of anger.

Emotions can be sorted, or classified, along two basic dimensions: (1)unpleasant versus pleasant, and (2)________________.

As discussed in the text, the emotion of anger can best be classified as ____.

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

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

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.

Joe's entire neighborhood 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 ____.

According to the textbook, emotional intelligence can be denoted as ____.

When asked to predict their emotional reaction to being paralyzed in a car accident, most people know that they would be upset, but tend to overestimate for how long they would be upset. Research suggests that this error may occur because ____.

The emotion of disgust tends to make people lower their selling price and lower what they would pay for an object.

Salespeople who force themselves to smile at customers all day may actually end up feeling relatively happy. This effect can be best explained by ____.

Suppose that 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?

It is more or less always the case that affect regulation is aimed at "feeling better right now."