Exam 6: Emotion and Affect

Of the factors listed below, the strongest predictor of a person's happiness is ____.

The feeling of ________________ will lead a person to lower a selling price and increase a payment price.

Overall happiness tends to ____.

One theory suggests that positive emotions function to buffer people against future "hard times" by expanding people's current attention and mind-set (e.g., making them relatively creative, exploratory, and adventurous). This theory is known as ____.

Which of the following theories of emotion suggests that excitation transfer may sometimes happen?

The following people have scored high on the AIM. Taking this score into account, which one would most likely have the highest quality of life?

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

Lerner, Small, and Loewenstein (2004) conducted a study in which ____ affected decisions about buying and selling.

Explain what the objective roots of happiness are based on current research described in your text.

Research on happiness and parenting indicates that couples who have children are ____ than couples who do not have children, although ____.

Research on happiness and parenting indicates that couples who have children are ____ than couples who do not have children, although ____.

When women with high levels of sex guilt watch erotic films, they tend to ____.

What term is concerned with people's ability to predict their emotional reactions to future events?

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

Paul Eckman's research indicates that ____.

Routinely repressing, or seeking to conceal, feelings of anger is MOST associated with an increased risk of ____.

Suppose Hannah is feeling unhappy. An advocate of the ____ theory of emotions might suggest that she "fake it" by smiling happily until she began to feel better.

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

What is most accurate about the emotion of anxiety?

The idea that people maintain relatively constant levels of happiness or unhappiness-regardless of what happens to them-has been referred to as ____.