Final - 12&14

Question 1

The James-Lange theory of emotion states that

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To experience emotion is to be aware of our physiological responses to an emotion-arousing event

Question 2

The two-factor theory of emotion was proposed by

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Stanley Schachter and Jerome Singer

Question 3

Evidence that people can develop and emotional preference for stimuli to which they have been unknowingly exposed has convinced Robert Zajonc that

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Sometimes emotion precedes cognition

Question 4

Julie surprised her unsuspecting roommate Jan by yelling “boo” as Jan walked into their darkened bedroom where Julie was hiding. Before she consciously recognized the “boo” as a silly prank, Jan experienced an immediate surge of fear, resulting from the routing of the unexpected sensory input through her thalamus directly to the

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Amygdala

Question 5

When her son fails to arrive home as expected, Elena fears he has been in an accident. Both her heart and respiration rate remain elevated until she sees him come safely through the door. Her body soon returns to normal due to the action of her ____ nervous system

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Parasympathetic

Question 6

The guilty knowledge test is typically used to

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Assess a suspects responses to details of a crime

Question 7

People are especially good at quickly detecting facial expressions of

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Anger

Question 8

The fact that people from widely different cultures display and interpret facial expressions of emotion in a similar manner best illustrates the impact of

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Human genetics similarities

Question 9

Reduced feelings of tension following aggressive outbursts contribute to

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The reinforcement of aggression

Question 10

The feel-good, do-good phenomenon refers to the fact that when people feel happy they

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Are more willing to help others

Question 11

Psychologists define stress as

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The process by which we appraise and respond to threatening or challenging events

Question 12

An individual’s characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling, and acting is his or her

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Personality

Question 13

By professional training, Freud was a

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Physician

Question 14

Freud emphasized that the id operates on the ______ principle

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Pleasure

Question 15

Gender identity refers to

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The sense of being male, female, or a combination of the two

Question 16

Regression is a defense mechanism that involves

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Retreating to a more infantile psychosexual stage

Question 17

Carl Jung referred to a shared reservoir of memory traces from our species history as the

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Collective unconsciousness

Question 18

Rorschach inkblot test results diagnose many normal adults as disordered. This indicates that the test has little

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Validity

Question 19

The humanistic perspective emphasized the value of

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Self-determination

Question 20

Carl Rogers referred to an attitude of total acceptance toward another person as

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Unconditional positive regard

Question 21

The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator classifies people according to personality types identified by

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Carl Jung

Question 22

Hans and Sybil Eysenck described personality differences by identifying

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Basic factors

Question 23

The Big Five trait dimensions were identified by means of

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Factor analysis

Question 24

The basic components of emotion are

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Expressive behaviors, physiological arousal, and conscious experience