Question 1

According to Howard Gardner, ____.

Accepted Answer

A)  many people with IQs of 160 work for people with IQs of 100, if the former have poor interpersonal intelligence and the latter have a high one
B)  emotional intelligence can be equated with maturity and character, and is therefore an excellent predictor of success
C)  no matter what the situation, traditionally-defined intelligence is more important than emotional intelligence
D)  while teamwork requires emotional intelligence, supervisors must often suppress their emotional intelligence to succeed A

Question 2

Research on the so-called 'hedonic treadmill' has shown that both lottery winners and paralysis victims ____, although paralysis victims ____.

Accepted Answer

A)  'get over it' and return to preexisting levels of happiness more quickly than might be expected; do not recover as quickly
B)  'get over it' and return to preexisting levels of happiness more quickly than might be expected; actually recover even more quickly
C)  take longer to 'get over it' and return to preexisting levels of happiness than might be expected; take an especially long time to recover
D)  take longer to 'get over it' and return to preexisting levels of happiness than might be expected; actually recover more quickly A

Question 3

An angry person is NOT likely to ___.

Accepted Answer

A)  take more risks
B)  feel more optimistic
C)  take a stand for what they believe in
D)  review information more thoroughly before acting on it D

Question 4

According to catharsis theory, ____.

Accepted Answer

A)  expressing negative emotions produces a healthy release and is therefore good for the psyche
B)  practicing emotional restraint of negative emotions (i.e., holding in negative emotions)  can help to dissipate, or reduce, such emotions across time
C)  ironically, people tend to feel unpleasant emotions when they have survived a negative experience when others have suffered
D)  emotions tend to promote interpersonal ties

Question 5

Emotions are both positive and negative.Once people experience both types of emotion, they generally try to orchestrate their lives to maximise the experience of positive emotion and minimise the experience of negative emotion.This pattern illustrates that emotions provide ____.

Accepted Answer

A)  a feedback system
B)  enrichment to life
C)  the intent for criminal behaviour
D)  a motive for creative behaviour

Question 6

The Yerkes-Dodson law addresses ____.

Accepted Answer

A)  how emotions fade across time
B)  how self-other assessments impact emotional experience
C)  how low versus high arousal affects task performance
D)  how positive versus negative moods affect judgements

Question 7

The term 'affect balance' refers to the degree to which a person's affects are stable, or consistent, across time.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 8

Cross-cultural studies of people's internal emotional lives suggest that ____.

Accepted Answer

A)  most emotions are quite similar across cultures
B)  positive emotions are similar across cultures, but negative emotions are different
C)  negative emotions are similar across cultures, but positive emotions are different
D)  both positive and negative emotions differ substantially across cultures

Question 9

Research on the objective and subjective predictors of happiness indicates that ____ has only a weak relationship to happiness, but ____ is a strong predictor of happiness.

Accepted Answer

A)  how often you get sick; how often people around you get sick
B)  how often you get sick; how satisfied you are with your health
C)  how often people around you get sick; how often you get sick
D)  how satisfied you are with your health; how often you get sick

Question 10

As discussed in the text, one study conducted in 2001 examined short biographies that were written by nuns in 1930.The study found that the nuns who ____ in the biographies had lived about 10 years longer than the nuns who didn't.

Accepted Answer

A)  focused on their adult lives rather than their childhoods
B)  expressed high commitment to being a nun
C)  focused on other people (rather than themselves) 
D)  expressed high positive emotions

Question 11

The ability of people to feel varying ranges of intensity in emotional experiences is measured by the________________.

Accepted Answer

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Question 12

Paul Eckman's research indicates that ____.

Accepted Answer

A)  emotional expressions are similar in collectivist but not individualistic cultures
B)  while females can recognise emotions across cultures, males cannot
C)  adults are less proficient at recognising emotions across cultures than are children
D)  people can understand each other's emotions even across diverse cultures

Question 13

Emotions are inner processes that help promote ________________ relations.

Accepted Answer

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Question 14

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?

Accepted Answer

A)  Jabu, who has a relatively 'easy' life with lots of good experiences
B)  Jim, who has a relatively 'difficult' life with lots of stressors
C)  Jenny, whose life is a balance between good and bad experiences
D)  Jerusha, who is low on life satisfaction

Question 15

According to the text, emotions are ____, whereas moods are ____.

Accepted Answer

A)  linked to particular events; not linked to particular events
B)  not linked to particular events; linked to particular events
C)  automatic responses; conscious evaluations
D)  conscious evaluations; automatic responses

Question 16

When people are extremely aroused, their work performance often suffers.Research suggests that this is likely because extremely aroused people ____.

Accepted Answer

A)  are so narrowly focused on the task in front of them that they frequently miss (and fail to make use of)  other relevant, useful information
B)  are easily distracted by irrelevant stimuli, failing to focus their attention on the most important pieces of the task at hand
C)  tend to multitask and rush through jobs - such that they fail to attend to details and make a relatively large number of 'careless' errors
D)  are overly confident in their capabilities and thus fail to double-check or question their work product

Question 17

Research on guilt indicates that people mainly feel guilty about things that ____.

Accepted Answer

A)  they have done to themselves
B)  they have done to people with whom they are close
C)  they have done to acquaintances or strangers
D)  people have done to them

Question 18

Research indicates that men may actually be innately more emotional (i.e., experience emotions more strongly) as compared to women.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 19

Someone might be a happy person because he enjoys many positive emotional experiences, or because she hardly ever feels bad emotions.What do social psychologists use to measure this level of happiness?

Accepted Answer

A)  emotional intelligence (EQ) 
B)  affect balance
C)  positive emotion index (PEI) 
D)  life satisfaction

Question 20

Discuss the various methods that people use to regulate their emotions.Which of these are relatively effective, and which are relatively ineffective? Do men and women tend to use different strategies?

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Exam 6: Emotion and Affect