Chapter 10

Question 1

The subjective experience of a change in physiological arousal due to environmental events

Answer 1

Emotion

Question 2

What are the four components of Emotion?

Answer 2

1. An environmental events or trigger
2. A physiological change
3. An affective experience
4. A cognitive interpretation of the experience

Question 3

Is a long-lasting, general affective stat that does not have a specific trigger even or target

Answer 3

Mood

Question 4

The psychological experience of our physiological state

Answer 4

Affect

Question 5

Subjective experience of energy, engagement, and concentration characterize by being gratitude, happiness, and joy

Answer 5

Positive effects

Question 6

Subjective experience of distress and unwanted engagement characterized by fear, guilt, and shame

Answer 6

Negative affect

Question 7

The theory that environmental events trigger physiological responses that we then label as particular emotions

Answer 7

James-Lang Theory of Emotion

Question 8

A casual explanation of behavior that focuses on immediate situational and physiological factors

Answer 8

Proximate Explanations

Question 9

A casual explanation of behavior that focuses on the evolutionary forces and functions of the behavior

Answer 9

Ultimate Explanations

Question 10

This theory proposes that we have genetically determined needs ranging from physiological to social that drive our behavior

Answer 10

Need Hierarchy Theory

Question 11

The degree to which a psychological theory or assessment appears to be effective or accurate

Answer 11

Face Validity

Question 12

The likelihood that an organism’s genes will survive either by the continued life of the organism or being passed through reproduction

Answer 12

Genetic Fitness

Question 13

The potential number of offspring that an organism could produce in its life time

Answer 13

Lifetime Reproductive Potential

Question 14

The erroneous belief that biologically based motives, feelings, or behaviors are morally right or wrong

Answer 14

Naturalistic Fallacy

Question 15

Behaviors that are activated by stimuli in the environment surrounding the organism

Answer 15

Extrinsic Motivation

Question 16

Behaviors that are motivated by thoughts, feelings, and values that are inside the individual

Answer 16

Intrinsic Motivation

Question 17

A fundamental psychological drive to have meaningful , reciprocal social connections

Answer 17

Need to belong

Question 18

stimulating events trigger feelings and physical reactions that occur at the same time

Answer 18

Cannon-bard Theory of Emotion

Question 19

an emotion is experienced by first experiencing a physiological arousal, and then cognitively interpreting that arousal based on the surrounding environment to label it as a specific emotion

Answer 19

Schachter-singer two-factor theory of emotion