Emotion and Affect Chapter 6 MCQ

Question 1

Emotion

Answer 1

a conscious evaluative reaction to some event

Question 2

Mood

Answer 2

a feeling state that is not clearly linked to some event

Question 3

Affect

Answer 3

the automatic repsponse that something is good or bad

Question 4

Conscious emotion

Answer 4

a powerful and clearly unified feeling state, such as anger or joy

Question 5

Automatic affect

Answer 5

A quick response of liking or disliking toward something

Question 6

Arousal

Answer 6

a physiological reaction, including faster heartbeat and faster or heavier breathing, linked to most conscious emotions

Question 7

James-lange theory of emotion

Answer 7

the proposition that the bodily processes of emotion come first and the minds perception of these bodily reactions then creates the subjective feelings of emotion

Question 8

Facial feedback hypothesis

Answer 8

the idea that feedback from the face muscles evokes or magnifies emotions

Question 9

Cannon-bard theory of emotion

Answer 9

the proposition that emotional stimuli activate the thalamus, which then activates both the cortex, producing an experiences emotion, and the hypothalamus and autonomic nervous system, producing physiological arousal

Question 10

Schachter-singer theory of emotion

Answer 10

the idea that emotion has two components: a bodily state of arousal and a cognitive label that specifies the emotion

Question 11

Excitation transfer

Answer 11

the idea that arousal from one even can transfer to a later event

Question 12

Affect balance

Answer 12

the frequency of positive emotions minus the frequence of negative emotions

Question 13

Life satisfaction

Answer 13

an evaluation of how ones life is generally, and how it compares to some standard

Question 14

Hedonic treadmill

Answer 14

a theory proposing that people stay at about the same level of happiness regardless of what happens to them

Question 15

Anger

Answer 15

an emotional response to a real or imagined threat or provocation

Question 16

Catharsis theory

Answer 16

the proposition that expressing negative emotions produces a healthy release of those emotions and is therefore good for the psyche

Question 17

Guilt

Answer 17

an unpleasent moral emotion associated with a specific instance in which one has acted badly or wrongly

Question 18

Shame

Answer 18

a moral emotin that, like guilt, involves feeling bad but, unlike guilt, spreads to the whole person

Question 19

Survivor guilt

Answer 19

an unpleasant emotion associated with surviving a tragic event involving much loss of life

Question 20

Affect-as-information hypothesis

Answer 20

the idea that people judge something as good or bad by asking themselves how do I feel about it?

Question 21

Affective forecasting

Answer 21

the ability to predict ones emotional reactions to future events

Question 22

Risk-as-feelings hypothesis

Answer 22

the idea that people rely on emotional processes to evaluate risk, with the result that their judgements may be biased by emotional factors

Question 23

Broaden-and-build theory

Answer 23

the proposition that positive emotions expand an individuals attention and mind-set

Question 24

Yarkes-dodson law

Answer 24

the proposition that some arousal is better than none, but too much can hurt performance

Question 25

Emotional intelligence (EQ)

Answer 25

the ability to percieve, access and generate, understand, and reflectively regulate emotions