Exam 6: Emotion and Affect

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

Emotions are both positive and negative. Once people experience both types of emotion, they generally try to orchestrate their lives to maximize the experience of positive emotion and minimize the experience of negative emotion. This pattern illustrates that emotions provide ____.

For which group(s) is there a strong association between overeating and being in a bad mood?

Researcher Paul Ekman and his colleagues have suggested that there are six basic emotions. Which of the following is NOT one of these?

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

There are three major ways that people deal with anger: They repress it (e.g., by denying their anger), they vent it (e.g., by yelling at someone), or they try to get rid of it (e.g., by relaxing or going for a jog). Which approach is generally most successful at reducing anger?

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

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?

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.

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

Which of the following emotions is most associated with seeking to do good acts, such as apologizing?

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

When social psychologists talk about quick and automatic reactions that are simply positive or negative (as opposed to being full-blown, complex feelings), they are talking about ____.

The term "affect balance" refers to the degree to which a person's affects are stable, or consistent, across time.

Describe how the arousal associated with emotion influences performance.

The risk-as-feelings hypothesis suggests that ____.

DeeDee is trying to decide if a job offer she has just received is a good or bad offer. I just don't feel good about it, she thinks. Based on this feeling, DeeDee decides it is a bad offer. DeeDee's decision process is consistent with the ____________________ hypothesis.

Research suggest that people are speedier and more accurate at problem-solving when they are in negative moods as opposed to positive moods.

The James-Lange theory of emotion and the facial feedback hypothesis are similar in that they both suggest that, in emotional situations, ____.

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