Mini Chap 11

Question 1

Affective forecasting

Answer 1

Ability to predict our own and others happiness

Question 2

Anorexia nerves a

Answer 2

Eating disorder assosciated with excessive weight loss and irrational perception that one is overweight

Question 3

Broaden and build theory

Answer 3

Theory proposing that happiness predisposes us to think more openly

Question 4

Bulimia nervosa

Answer 4

Eating disorder assosciated with pattern of binging and purging in an effort to lose or maintain weight

Question 5

Cannon bard theory

Answer 5

Theory p[roposing that an emotion provoking event leads simultaneously to an emotion and to bodily reactions

Question 6

Cognitive theories of emotion

Answer 6

Theories proposing that emotions are products of thinking

Question 7

Defensive pessimism

Answer 7

Strategy of anticipating failure and compensating for this expectation by mentally overpreparing for negative outcomes

Question 8

Discrete emotions theory

Answer 8

Theory that humans experience a small number of distinct emotions that are rooted in our biology

Question 9

Display rules

Answer 9

Cross cultural guidelines for how and when to express emotions

Question 10

Drive reduction theory

Answer 10

Theory proposing that certain drives like hunger thirst and sex motivate us to act in ways that minimize aversive states

Question 11

Emotion

Answer 11

Mental states or feeling assosciated with our evaluation of experiences

Question 12

Excitement phase

Answer 12

Phases in human sexual response in which people experience sexual pleasure and notice physiological changes associated with it

Question 13

Facial feedback hypothesis

Answer 13

Theory that blood vessels in the face feedback temperature information in the brain altering our experience of emotions

Question 14

Glucostatic theory

Answer 14

Theory that when our blood glucose levels drop, hunger creates a drive to eat to restore the proper level of glucose

Question 15

Guilty knowledge test

Answer 15

Alternative to the polygraph test that relies on the premise that criminals harbour concealed knowledge about the crime that innocent people do

Question 16

Hedonic treadmill

Answer 16

Tendency for our moods to adapt to external circumstances

Question 17

Hierarchy of needs

Answer 17

Medol developed by Abraham Maslow, proposing that we must satisfy physiological needs and needs for safety and security before progressing to more complex needs

Question 18

Incentive theories

Answer 18

Theories proposing that were often motivated by positive goals

Question 19

Integrity test

Answer 19

Questionnaire that presumably assess workers tendency to steal or cheat

Question 20

Internal external theory

Answer 20

Theory proposing that obese people ar motivated to eat more by external cues than internal cues

Question 21

James Lange theory of emotion

Answer 21

Theory proposing that emotions from our interpretations of out bodily reactions to stimuli

Question 22

Lepton

Answer 22

Hormone that signals the hypothalamus and brain stem to reduce appetite and increase amount of energy used

Question 23

Motivation

Answer 23

Psychological drives that propel us in a specific direction

Question 24

nonverbal leakage

Answer 24

Unconscious spillover of emotions into nonverbal behaviour

Question 25

Orgasm phase

Answer 25

Phase in human sexual response marked by involuntary rhythmic contractions in muscles of gene tiles

Question 26

Pinocchio response

Answer 26

Supposedly perfect physiological or behaviour indicator of lying

Question 27

Plateau phase

Answer 27

Phase in human sexual response in which sexual tension builds

Question 28

Positive psychology

Answer 28

Discipline that has sough to emphasize human strengths

Question 29

Positivity effect

Answer 29

Tendency for people to remember more positive than negative information with age

Question 30

Primary emotions

Answer 30

Small number of emotions believed by some theorists to be cross culturally universal

Question 31

Proxemics

Answer 31

Study of personal space

Question 32

Proximity

Answer 32

Physical nearness
-predictor of attraction

Question 33

Reciprocity

Answer 33

Rule of give and take, predictor of attraction

Question 34

Resolution phase

Answer 34

Phase in human sexual response following orgasm in which people report relaxation and sense of well being

Question 35

Set point

Answer 35

Value that establishes a range of body and muscle mass that we tend to maintain

Question 36

Similarity

Answer 36

Extend to which we ave things in common with others
-predictor of attraction

Question 37

Somatic marker theory

Answer 37

Theory proposing that we use our gut reactions to help us determine how we should act

Question 38

Two factor theory

Answer 38

Theory proposing that emotions are produced by an undifferentiated state of arousal along with an attribution of the arousal

Question 39

Yerkes Dodson law

Answer 39

Inverted U shaped relation between arousal on the one hand and mood and performance on the other hand