Exam 8: Emotion and Health

James and Lange argued that the autonomic nervous system responds similarly to a variety of emotional experiences.

What does research show about the relationship between stress and health?

The ___ plays a role in combining emotional,attentional,and bodily cues to produce a conscious emotional response.

When a person succumbs to AIDS,he or she dies from:

People with damage to their right hemisphere are often indifferent or unaware of emotion-provoking situations,such as paralysis of a limb.

All of the following are considered aspects of emotions except:

Describe evidence that supports the role of testosterone in male and female animals and humans.Why is this evidence difficult to interpret?

Prozac does all of the following except reduce:

Which of the following is not true about stress?

The MAOA-L allele has been shown to produce violence:

Bilateral damage to the amygdala produces ___.

Which of the following characterizes reactive aggression?

People with left hemisphere damage cannot put "emotional color and content" in their speech.

In contrast to chronic stress,short-term stress:

PMS-related aggressiveness may be decreased by:

Steve was doing some basement cleaning and found a not-too-recently dead rat with a pretty ripe aroma.The revulsion only grew as Steve forced himself to pick up the dead rat.Steve was coping with emotions that were likely localizable to what two areas?

Discuss the criticisms and alternatives to the James-Lange theory of emotions.Focus on Schacter and Singer's cognitive theory of emotion.

Describe the body's immune system components.What are autoimmune diseases?

PET imaging has shown that people with impulsive aggression have decreased serotonin activity in the:

Activation of the periaqueductal gray produces: