Chapter 8 Motivation and Emotion: Module 26

Question 1

Emotions

Answer 1

Feelings that generally have both physiological and cognitive elements and that influence behavior.

Question 2

Schadenfreude

Answer 2

A feeling of pleasure over another person’s difficulties.

Question 3

Hagaii

Answer 3

A mood of vulnerable heartache colored by frustration.

Question 4

Musu

Answer 4

A feeling of reluctance to yield unreasonable demands made by one’s parents.

Question 5

James-Lange theory of emotion

Answer 5

The belief that emotional experience is a reaction to bodily evens occurring as a result of an external situation.

Question 6

Visceral experience

Answer 6

For every emotion there is an accompanying physiological or gut reaction of internal organs.

Question 7

Cannon-Bard theory of emotion

Answer 7

The belief that both physiological arousal and emotional experience are produced simultaneously by the same nerve stimulus.

Question 8

Schachter-Singer theory of emotion

Answer 8

The belief that emotions are determined jointly by a nonspecific kind of physiological arousal and its interpretation based on environmental cues.

Question 9

Facial-affect program

Answer 9

Activation of a set of nerve impulses that make the face display the appropriate expression.

Question 10

Facial-feedback hypothesis

Answer 10

The hypothesis that facial expressions not only reflect emotional experience but also help determine how people experience and label emotions.