Chapter 17 Self-test questions

Emotion
. These psychological states are typically less intense than emotions, but may pervade a person's life for days, weeks, months, or possibly even years at a time.

. According to Damasio (1994), after Elliot suffered damage to a circuit between the prefrontal cortex and the amygdala, and his emotional experiences were blocked from consciousness, Elliot's decision making

. Which of the following descriptions of ideal affect describes the dimension known as activation?

. In certain cultures or subcultures, one is expected to express grief at funerals of loved ones by wailing, weeping, and pounding the coffin. The cultural standards for such behaviour are called

. Cognitive psychologists have determined that telling a lie is demanding such that it increases a person's

. This early theory of emotion asserts that we are happy because we are smiling, sad because we are crying, and frightened because our hearts are racing and our palms are sweating.

. This theory of emotion asserts that when some sort of emotion-laden event is perceived, the sensory impulses are relayed to the thalamus first. The thalamus in turn stimulates both the autonomic nervous system and the cerebral cortex at about the same time.

. The main weakness of both the James-Lange theory and Cannon-Bard theory of emotion is that neither theory addressed

. This direct pathway from this area of the brain to the amygdala accounts for the fact that we can respond instantly with fear to the appearance of potentially threatening visual or auditory stimuli.

. The human fear response is regulated by two pathways, one of which runs to the cerebral cortex. This pathway is

. Studies of spinal injury patients, substance abusers, victims of terrorism, and married couples reported that the best way to deal with the anger associated with study participants' experiences was for the victims to

. When psychologists refer to happiness, they are talking about

. All of the following statements support the idea that money does not necessarily translate into happiness, EXCEPT:

. Psychologist Ed Diener has found that income is related to happiness primarily in terms of a person's

. Over our lifetimes, the level of happiness we experience tends to

. This type of intelligence explains an individual's ability to identify, manage and expression one's emotions and to empathise the emotion of others

. Basic emotions are those which

. Paul's Ekman's coding scheme of the facial muscle configurations with create expressions of basic emotion is known as the:

. According to the findings from Mori and Mori (2009) having the muscles of the cheeks associated with smiling lifted

. Brule and Veenhoven (2017) found that happiness scores

. As much as _ of the variance in happiness set point is thought to be genetically determined

. An emotion is a short-lived, intense physiological state, whereas a _ is a state that is typically less intense but may las for much longer

. The two dimensions of affect are:

. In a study of the use of emoticons, Japanese participants differed in their use of symbols to suggest pleasure or displeasure than participants in Europe and the United State. Which of the following is TRUE for the Japanese participants

. In one study of lying, rates of lying were found to differ according to the mode of communication. Which mode of communication was associated with the highest rate of lies

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