Exam 6: Emotion and Affect

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

The so-called "facial feedback hypothesis" refers to the idea that

The Yerkes-Dodson law addresses ____.

Suppose that you get a creepy feeling every time you ride the bus at night. Even if you have never heard about anything scary happening on the bus at night, you might end up using this feeling to form a judgment that riding the bus at night is a bad thing. Forming a judgment in such a way would be consistent with ____.

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

People use many strategies to try to regulate affect and stay in a good mood. While the data are very complex, research suggests that one of the most effective strategies is ____.

According to the ____ theory of emotion, children with Moebius syndrome, who have a neurological condition that affects their ability to use their facial muscles, should have diminished intensity of their emotions.

Lerner, Small, and Loewenstein (2004)conducted a study in which ____ affected decisions about buying and selling.

In the opening of this chapter, two men's reactions to spam e-mail were described. The fact that neither of the men was able to shrug off their annoyance to the spam illustrates the fact that ____.

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

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.

Research shows that there is often a strong association between feeling negative emotions and overeating. However, this association does NOT occur ____.

Research on marriage, parenting, and happiness suggests that one of the happiest times in people's lives, especially for women, is the ____.

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

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

Within social psychological research on emotion, the term "arousal" is used to refer to ____.

Cross-cultural studies of people's internal emotional lives suggest that ____.

According to the text, emotions tend-on the whole-to ____.

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

The broaden-and-build theory is an explanation for ____.