Exam 6: Emotion and Affect

In social psychology, a feeling state that is not linked to any particular event is known as a(n) ____.

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

Research on repressing versus venting anger shows that ____.

Research on the value of venting anger and catharsis suggests that ____.

In what way is anger different from contempt?

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 ____.

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

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

Supposed that Natalie has to go to the hospital today to visit her cousin. He has a number of medical problems and has been in a depressed slump for months. Natalie is sort of dreading seeing him. In anticipation of the visit, before leaving the house, Natalie is therefore likely to engage in affect regulation by putting herself in a(n) ________________ mood.

Research on emotional intelligence indicates that people who score high on emotional intelligence are ____.

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 ____.

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.

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

Scores on the AIM instrument tell us ____.

Research on affective forecasting suggests that, when people are asked to predict how they would feel if they lost their jobs, they ____.

According to the text, emotions are ____, whereas moods are ____.

Someone might be a happy person because he enjoys many positive emotional experiences, or because she hardly ever feels bad emotions. What do social psychologists use to measure this level of happiness?

When people are asked to predict how they would feel if a certain event occurred, they are ____ at predicting which emotion they would feel. Research additionally shows that people are ____ at predicting how long they would be emotionally affected.

Washing one's hands is thought to most influence which of the following emotions?

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 ____.