Exam 44: Motivation and Emotion: Emotion in Detail

You are being given a polygraph test as a condition of being employed at your company.The best advice would be for you to

When Nicole's car skidded out of control on the slippery highway,she experienced physiological arousal,reacted, and felt fear simultaneously.This illustrates which theory of emotion?

Which of the following is considered to be an element of emotion by all of the theories of emotion discussed in the textbook?

According to the Cannon-Bard theory,

Which nervous system is made up of the sympathetic and parasympathetic branches?

Which nervous system branch has been activated when sugar is released into the bloodstream for quick energy,the heart beats faster to supply blood to the muscles,digestion is temporarily slowed,and blood flow in the skin is restricted to reduce bleeding?

Dr.Nelson enters the classroom,sits on top of the desk and leans back slightly with one arm casually draped over the podium that is to the side of the desk.A person who studies kinesics would most likely say that Dr.Nelson is displaying

Regarding gender differences in expressing emotions,which of the following statements is FALSE?

People who suffer from phobias and disabling anxiety often feel afraid without knowing why.This appears to be due to the actions of the part of the brain known as the _______.

Vicki is taking her morning walk when a strange dog appears in her path and begins to growl at her.Vicki's heart begins to race,the hair on her arms stands on end,and her palms begin to sweat as fear envelops her.These symptoms that Vicki is experiencing are due to the reactions of which nervous system?

We likely choose the appropriate label for the source of our arousal through a process called attribution,according to which theory of emotion?

In an experiment,people rated how funny they thought cartoons were while holding a pen crosswise in their mouths.Those who held the pen in their teeth thought the cartoons were funnier than did people who held the pen in their lips.These results are best explained by the

Which two psychologists added thinking and interpretation (cognition)to our view of emotion?

Regarding facial expressions,which of the following statements is FALSE?

To clarify the meaning of the facial expression,it would be most helpful to pay attention to which of the following regarding the facial expression?

According to Richard Lazarus,people tend to evaluate a stimulus as good or bad,threatening or supportive,relevant or irrelevant,and so on,which illustrates the process of emotional _______.

The perception of an emotion in any situation can depend on what a person thinks has caused his or her feelings of physical arousal.This illustrates

In a research study,one-third of the subjects were injected with adrenaline,one-third were given a tranquilizer,and one-third were injected with a placebo (salt water).They were then shown a comedy film.The group injected with adrenaline laughed the most,the group given the tranquilizer laughed the least,with the placebo group falling between the two other groups.Which theory explains that the participants who received adrenaline had a stirred-up body,but no explanation for what they were feeling.Consequently,they became happy when the movie implied that their adrenaline arousal was due to amusement?

Charles Darwin and psychologists consider human emotional expressions

Even if they are basic emotions and processed first in the limbic system,all emotions are eventually sent to the cortex where they give rise to more or less complicated emotional feelings through _______ processing.