Exam 6: Emotion and Affect

The basic arousal states are ____.

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

Research on the objective and subjective predictors of happiness indicates that ____ has only a weak relationship to happiness, but ____ is a strong predictor of happiness.

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 text, emotions are ____, whereas moods are ____.

Who is likely to have the strongest disgust reactions?

How do positive emotions impact problem-solving? Research suggests that being in a good mood ____.

Most researchers describe affect as ____.

When people are extremely aroused, their work performance often suffers. Research suggests that this is likely because extremely aroused people ____.

What theme is supported by the fact that children learn to conceal their emotions as they grow up?

The ability to perceive, access and generate, understand, and reflectively regulate emotions is known as ____________________.

Compared to affects, emotions tend to be relatively simple and automatic.

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

Lottery winners are no happier than anyone else a year after their big win. Similarly, people who have experienced serious physical injuries seem to "get over it" fairly well across time and return to their pre-injury level of happiness. These findings are consistent with research on ____.

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

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

As discussed in the text, one study conducted in 2001 examined short biographies that were written by nuns in 1930. The study found that the nuns who ____ in the biographies had lived about 10 years longer than the nuns who didn't.

One study found that physicians who were given candy were faster and more accurate in diagnosing a case study than physicians who weren't given candy. Additional research suggests that these results can best be explained by the idea that ____.

Research on gender differences in emotions has found that ____.

Disgust has been shown to promote handwashing, avoidance of sex with risky partners, and other health-promoting behaviors. As such, disgust has been called our ___.