Module 11

Question 1

what is emotion

Answer 1

description of what we are feeling

Question 2

_______ are short lived that correspond to situational events. ________ last longer, less intense states and are not affected by specific objects or events

emotions; moods

moods; emotions

Answer 2

emotions; moods

Question 3

What are the 3 principles of Charles Darwin’s principle of emotions

Answer 3

a)serviceable habits
b)antithesis
c)direct action of the excited nervous system on the body

Question 4

serviceable habits emphasizes emotion for _________.

Humans

non-human animal

adults

children

Answer 4

non-human animal

Question 5

A dog baring its teeth before attacking is

second principle of antithesis

first principle of serviceable habits

third principle of direct action

Answer 5

first principle of serviceable habits

Question 6

opposite emotions have opposite bodily expressions. Such as a dog when angry it may arch its back, lower its head, tense its muscle. Oppositely, when a dog is happy it back is straight, head is high, and muscles are relaxed. What principle is this?

second principle of antithesis

first principle of serviceable habits

third principle of direct action

Answer 6

second principle of antithesis

Question 7

describe The third principle of direct action of the excited nervous system on the body

Answer 7

emotions results in perceived changes in nervous system. Like face turning red when angry, the body expelling unused excitement as laughter.

Question 8

what does James a Lange Theroy suggest

Answer 8

we express the emotion the stimulus evokes and then identify emotion

Question 9

Organize James-Lange sequence of events for emotions in order

1. We acknowledge the privately experience emotion
2. We perceive the physical stimulus from natural environment
3. We express emotion publicly —-physiological changes occur as a result of perceiving the physical stimulus

Answer 9

2, 3, 1

Question 10

James believed many things about emotions that were disproven by Cannon what things did Cannon diprove.

Answer 10

1. If organs are severed emotions should stop
2. different physiological responses occur in different emotional states

3.internal body should be more sensitive than externa;

Question 11

What is cannon-Bard theory events in order

Answer 11

1. we perceive the physicals stimulus in environment

2.we simultaneously produce bodily or facial expression changes and acknowledge the emotions

Question 12

What part of the brain is believed to play a part in the processing of emotion (Cannon-Bard Theory)

Answer 12

the thalamus

Question 13

what evidence supports the claim that the thalamus governs emotion?

Answer 13

1. When cerebrum is removed rage is evoked but disappear when thalamus is removed
2. tumors on either side of thalamus evoke different emotions
3. anesthia evoke crying and laughing

Question 14

What do we call this transference of emotion when Enid becomes disgusted at the thought of eating a cow after she sees Arun exhibit disgust at the idea of eating a cow?

a
Emotional contagion

b
Simulated emotion

c
Emotional leakage

d
Action unit

Answer 14

emotional contagion

Question 15

define conditioned emotional response

Answer 15

process is linked to emotion through classical conditioning of a neutral substances

Question 16

When newborn chicks are separated from their mother what will they do?

Answer 16

emit a distress vocalization

Question 17

What drug blocks the uptake of glutamate?

Answer 17

ketamine

Question 18

define occasion setters

Answer 18

stimulus that signals relationship between a response and an outcome

Question 19

what is an interoceptive stimuli

Answer 19

a stimuli that comes from inside the body indicating a change from one state to another

Question 20

A male rat has copulated multiple times with the same female and is satiated. If a new female (one he has not copulated with) is introduced, he will express a renewed sexual interest in the new female.

what effect is this?

Answer 20

Coolidge effect

Question 21

what is habituation

Answer 21

a type of learning in which an animal is exposed to the same stimulus repeatedly and eventually stop responding to the uninformative stimulus.

Question 22

dishabituation

Answer 22

after animal is habituated to a stimulus it is introduced to stimulus with a change in context, a different stimulus is presented just before it, or there’s a rest period without presentation of the repeated stimulus

Question 23

when an individual attempts to copulate and courts with an individual that is already in a relationship is called

Answer 23

Mate poaching

Question 24

what is the rivalry sensitivity hypothesis

Answer 24

women focus on rival in their partner immediate vicinity while men focus on their partners when rivals are nearby.

Question 25

What are the two types of motivating operations

Answer 25

establishing operation and abolishing operations

Question 26

Being a little warm and having a heater is an

establishing operation or abolishing operations

Answer 26

abolishing operations because you don’t need to be warmer

Question 27

Being hot and sweaty with access to a fan is an

establishing operation or abolishing operations

Answer 27

establishing operation

If you’re hot and sweaty, then you might stand in front of the fan and turn it on high for several minutes—the reinforcer supports more behavior.

Question 28

define achievement motivations

Answer 28

a need to be excellent in an area