Deck 4: Emotion

Question 1

Difficulties regulating emotions results from dysfunction in which part of the brain?

A) Prefrontal cortex
B) Frontal lobe
C) Cerebral cortex
D) Amygdala

Answer 1

Prefrontal cortex

Question 2

The limbic system is not involved in which of the following neural activities?

A) Storing memory
B) Telling a lie
C) Breaking a promise
D) The limbic system is involved in all of the above activities.

Answer 2

The limbic system is involved in all of the above activities.

Question 3

Individuals with hostile attribution bias frequently experience which type of emotions?

A) Positive
B) Negative
C) Neutral
D) These individuals generally experience all types of emotion equally.

Answer 3

Negative

Question 4

Which of the following emotional regulation skills allows one to acknowledge that social interaction involves both positive and negative emotional experiences?

A) Emotional awareness
B) Emotional acceptance
C) Emotional versatility
D) Emotional competence

Question 5

Achieving all eight points of emotional competence will result in which of the following?

A) Emotional self-efficacy
B) Maladaptive behavior
C) Both A and B
D) Neither A nor B

Question 6

Emotional skills developed during adolescence includes all of the following except:

A) Modulating rapidly vacillating emotions
B) Achieving awareness of one's emotions
C) Understanding that emotional expressions are specifically directed toward objects in the environment and not randomly directed
D) Handling one's emotions without being overwhelmed

Question 7

Which of the following does not result from increased social support during childhood?

A) Increased psychological problems
B) Less child maltreatment
C) Reduced social service burden
D) Improved family functioning

Question 8

The ability to make distinctions among emotions that are similar or have the same valence, such as differences between fear and anger, is developed during which life stage?

A) Infancy
B) Childhood
C) Adolescence
D) Adulthood

Question 9

What is the idea that people will return to a baseline level of a specific emotional response following specific events?

A) Set-point hypothesis
B) Emotional reappraisal
C) Emotional versatility
D) Referential specificity

Question 10

Which of the following is an incorrect statement regarding the differences in displays of emotions between genders?

A) Women are more emotionally expressive than men
B) Men control their emotional displays but tend to express their emotions through actions such as aggression
C) Women express emotions through facial expression or interpersonal communication
D) Men have an advantage over women in the area of recognizing emotion and emotional expression

Question 11

Basic emotions, such as fear, anger, and happiness, tend to vary across cultures.

Question 12

Genetics has no impact on how one displays emotions.

Question 13

Healthy individuals view social information as positive or neutral.

Question 14

How a child regulates his or her emotions can predict later life outcomes.

Question 15

Emotional regulation is relatively stable across the life course into adulthood.

Question 16

Describe social information processing theory and the ways that healthy and unhealthy ways that information can be processed. Discuss the three emotional regulation skills that can help people appropriately process social information and social interactions, and control their behavior.