Exam 12: A--Emotional Behaviors, Stress, and Health

Brain-damaged patients who show a significant loss of emotional intelligence also show ____________________.

Emotions are generally associated with changes in the activity of the ____________________ nervous system.

People who have suffered damage to their amygdala cannot experience the emotion of fear.

Psychologists sometimes speak of ____________________, the ability to perceive, imagine, and understand emotions and to use that information in making decisions.

The ____________________ test, a modified version of the polygraph test, produces more accurate results by asking questions that should be threatening only to someone who knows the facts of a crime that have not been publicized.

Researchers measure changes in the startle reflex as an operational definition of ____________________.

____________________ psychology is the study of the features that enrich life, such as happiness, hope, creativity, courage, spirituality, and responsibility.

The ____________________ theory of emotions claims that the autonomic nervous system leads to emotions.

While we typically think of emotions as an internal experience that is followed by a facial expression representing our emotion, many researchers have questioned whether this is in fact the case. Specifically, researchers have wondered if they could illicit an emotional response by molding a participant's posture and breathing pattern into a pattern typical of a given emotion. Describe what happened in the study illustrated in your text in which participants were made to frown or smile by holding pens in their lips.

It appears that humans evolved the ability to cry because it reduces tension.

Activity of the ____________________ decreases heart rate and increases digestion.

Measuring emotional intelligence correctly has proved to be so difficult that contemporary psychologists have basically given up research in this area.

Any stimulus that arouses emotion alters the activity of the ____________________, the section of the nervous system that controls the organs such as the heart and intestines.

People who commit acts of violence typically score low on measures of self-esteem.

According to Barbara Fredrickson's ____________________ hypothesis of positive emotions, a happy mood increases your readiness to explore new ideas and opportunities.

Human beings are capable of ghastly acts of cruelty but also of nobility, heroism, and courageous opposition to violence. The struggle to understand violence is among the most important goals facing humanity in general and psychology in particular. Researchers are fairly certain that the combination of genetics and environment plays a role in predicting violence. Seven other factors that are associated with greater risk for violent behavior are presented in your text. List four of these seven risk factors.

One attempt to use physiological measurement of an emotion for a practical purpose is the polygraph, or lie-detector test. Describe how a polygraph is supposed to work. Explain one limitation in the efficacy of the polygraph test and how polygraph users have attempted to address this limitation.

You are going to show someone a picture that might arouse anger. The experience of anger will probably be greater if you mold the person's face into a ____________________ before showing the picture.

Most people who experience extremely traumatic events develop posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD).

Researchers have linked violence to childhood maltreatment in combination with one form of the gene controlling the brain protein ____________________.