Exam 14: Emotion, Aggression, and Stress

 Fear of strangers develops

 Which of the following structures has the greatest direct control over the autonomic nervous system?

 You have noticed that it is occasionally hard to interpret the facial expressions of one of your favorite blind performers. This observation offers support for the idea that

 Both voluntary and the spontaneous emotional expressions are mediated by the same brain pathways.

 The impact of culture on facial expressions is especially seen in

 How well would the classic theories of emotion predict the behavior of people playing violent videogames?

 The nucleus of the solitary tract is located in the

 A key finding of research on aggression is that it is

 The Schachter-Singer theory of emotion contends that the mood of a participant is ______ of an actor.

 Data from the "swinging bridge" experiment, in which men appeared to have difficulty separating sexual arousal and fear, are most difficult to explain in terms of

 Prenatal exposure to extra testosterone

 For Hans Selye, the "fight or flight" response is synonymous with

 Which of the following behaviors on the part of mother rats lead to an increased resistance to stress later in life in the pups?

 Historical trends indicate that rates of human violence

 After her stroke, Janet has trouble understanding and following social norms and making distinctions between her own behavior and that of other people. It is most likely that her stroke affected her

 Use of which of the following substances is most likely to provoke aggression?

 Since most aggression is learned, the heritability of impulsive aggression is very low.

 The sympathetic nervous system is most likely to be active when

 What behaviors are correlated with telling a deliberate lie?

 High serotonin levels help prevent aggression by facilitating the activity of forebrain structures such as the orbitofrontal cortex.