Exam 36: Sexual Motivation and the Need to Belong

According to the Cannon-Bard theory,the body's arousal is related to the sympathetic nervous system in the same way that subjective awareness of emotion is related to the

According to Joseph LeDoux,our automatic and most rapid emotional responses involve neural processing that follows

Which of the following would be most threatened by evidence that highly similar patterns of physiological activity are associated with uniquely different emotional states?

Who suggested that "we feel sorry because we cry ...afraid because we tremble"?

Dr.Bouton believes that emotion is the result of the interaction of physiological arousal and the cognitive appraisal that we apply to explain the arousal.Dr.Bouton's view is most consistent with the ________ theory of emotion.

As people experience positive emotions,an increase in brain activity is most evident in the

A therapist tells a patient who is afraid of elevators that his rapid breathing while on an elevator is not due to fear but is a natural consequence of too little oxygen in a small,enclosed space.With this new interpretation of his arousal,the patient no longer dreads elevators.The reduction in the patient's fear is best understood in terms of

Stephan noticed that his heart pounded and his palms were sweaty when he encountered a bear in the woods and when he kissed his girlfriend for the first time.He felt afraid when he saw the bear because it was a threatening situation,but he felt excited with the kiss.Which theory of emotion best explains Stephan's emotions?

The autonomic nervous system regulates the ________ that accompanies different emotions.

Julie surprised her unsuspecting roommate Jan by yelling "boo" as Jan walked into their darkened bedroom where Julie was hiding.Before she consciously recognized the "boo" as a silly prank,Jan experienced an immediate surge of fear,resulting from the routing of the unexpected sensory input through her thalamus directly to the

Some emotions,especially complex feelings such as hatred and love,travel (by way of the thalamus)to the brain's cortex.There,they are analyzed and labeled before the response command is sent out,via the amygdala.This pathway is referred to as the

The idea that an emotion-arousing stimulus is simultaneously routed to the cortex and to the sympathetic nervous system is central to the

Evidence that people can develop an emotional preference for stimuli to which they have been unknowingly exposed has convinced Robert Zajonc that

Samir volunteered for a psychology study of emotion.If Samir were injected with ________,he would experience feelings of arousal.

When her son fails to arrive home as expected,Elena fears he has been in an accident.Both her heart and respiration rate remain elevated until she sees him come safely through the door.Her body soon returns to normal due to the action of her ________ nervous system.

Jolly infants and alert,energetic adults are especially likely to show high levels of brain activity in the

The polygraph measures the changes in ________ that accompany emotion.

Astrid was emotionally aroused by a TV horror movie.She became extremely angry when her younger brother momentarily blocked her view of the screen.When her movie viewing was interrupted by a phone call from her boyfriend,however,she experienced unusually intense romantic feelings.Astrid's different emotional reactions to her brother and her boyfriend are best explained by the

When Julie and her boyfriend Jack watch frightening horror movies together,they often experience explosive feelings of passionate affection for each other.Use your understanding of the physiology of emotion and the spillover effect to explain why horror movies could fuel their romantic feelings.

The two-factor theory of emotion was proposed by