Exam 6: Emotion and Affect

The essence of most guilt-inducing strategies is ____.

The term ________________ is used to refer to the frequency of one's positive emotions minus the frequency of one's negative emotions.

In social psychology, a feeling state that is not linked to any particular event is known as a(n)____.

Research on anger indicates that it ____.

According to the text, emotions are ____, whereas moods are ____.

According to the text, emotions do all of the following on a consistent basis EXCEPT ____.

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

Sherrill is really good at affective forecasting. She probably will also score high on the Managing Emotions branch of an emotional intelligence measure.

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

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

A physiological reaction that entails a quickened heartbeat and more labored breathing would most likely be linked to ____.

Explain what the objective roots of happiness are based on current research described in your text.

Research on affective forecasting suggests that, when people are asked to predict how they would feel if they lost their jobs, they ____.

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

According to Howard Gardner, ____.

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

Discuss the various methods that people use to regulate their emotions. Which of these are relatively effective, and which are relatively ineffective? Do men and women tend to use different strategies?

Research on emotional intelligence indicates that people who score high on emotional intelligence are ____.

Which of the following emotions has been referred to as "the shadow of intelligence"?

When Jack Whittaker won over $300 million in a Powerball jackpot, many people thought his life would be transformed for the better. Within a few years, he was divorced, had 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?