Emotion Lecture

Question 1

What is the James-Lange theory of emotion?

Answer 1

Emotions are interpretations of physiological responses and arousal comes before emotions

Question 2

What is the Cannon-Bard theory?

Answer 2

Emotions and arousal occur at the same time and emotion does not cause arousal and visa versa

Question 3

What is the two factor theory of arousal?

Answer 3

Emotions are made up of physical arousal and cognitive appraisal

Question 4

What is a spillover effect?

Answer 4

Interpreting physiological arousal for emotional arousal

Question 5

Who proposed that priming one stimulus influences how we feel about a subsequent stimulus?

Answer 5

Zajonc

Question 6

Who proposed that cognitive appraisal sometimes happens without awareness and that cognitive appraisal defines emotional responses?

Answer 6

Lazarus

Question 7

What is the fear center of the brain?

Answer 7

amygdala

Question 8

Define the two pathways for fear stimuli

Answer 8

High road (visual/audio --> thalamus --> cortex-->amygdala)
Low road (visual/audio --> amygdala --> thalamus)

Question 9

What are complex emotions?

Answer 9

memories, expectations, interpretations

Question 10

What is reappraisal?

Answer 10

Consciously changing interpretations of a stimulus or stressor

Question 11

Which emotion tends to “pop out” of a crowd and why?

Answer 11

Angry

Question 12

What are the six primary emotions?

Answer 12

happiness, sadness, fear, disgust, anger, and surprise

Question 13

How did people communicate in prehistoric times?

Answer 13

with facial expressions

Question 14

What serves as a universal language across cultures?

Answer 14

Facial expressions

Question 15

Which cultures encourage individual emotion expression, and which encourage adjustment of emotional states to others?

Answer 15

Individualistic cultures

collective cultures

Question 16

Which part of the world expresses emotion with the mouth, and which part of the world expresses emotion with the eyes?

Answer 16

Americans use mouth and Asians use eyes

Question 17

Which emotion is triggered by the fight or flight response?

Answer 17

Anger

Question 18

What is catharsis?

Answer 18

aggressive action or fantasy enables emotional release.

Question 19

Which emotion colors everything we experience?

Answer 19

Happiness

Question 20

What are traits of happy people?

Answer 20

wold seen as safer, more decisive and confident, earn more money, less likely for divorce.

Question 21

What is the feel-good do-good phenomenon?

Answer 21

A mood-boosting experience makes people more likely to do other good deeds.

Question 22

What is the adaptation-level phenomenon?

Answer 22

tendency to judge stimuli in comparison with our past experiences.

Question 23

What is relative deprivation?

Answer 23

Believing that we are worse off than people we compare ourselves to.

Question 24

What six factors is happiness related to?

Answer 24

High self esteem
Being optimistic, outgoing, agreeable
Having close, positive, long lasting relationships.
Having work and leisure that engages one’s skills
Having a religious faith
Sleeping well and exercising

Question 25

What three factors is happiness less related to?

Answer 25

Age
Gander
Physical attractiveness