Psych/Soc class 4

Question 1

How are B. F. Skinner’s and Albert Bandura’s perspectives on personality development similar?

Answer 1

Both emphasized the importance of environmental factors in shaping personality development.

Both believed that behavior can be shaped by conditioning principles

Question 2

Life course perspective” theory

Answer 2

Seeks to understand individuals through a multidisciplinary approach that takes social, cultural, and structural factors into account.

The theory asserts that young people who experience trauma and toxic environments during their critical formative years are much more likely to have negative outcomes in later life.

Question 3

Which theory of emotion states that emotions are a combination of physiological arousal and the brain that labels the states of arousal as a specific emotion?

Answer 3

Schachter-Singer Theory

Question 4

You turn on your bathroom light and see a large snake coiled up in the tub. According to the Cannon-Bard theory of emotion, you:

Answer 4

feel the emotion of fear and experience the associated physiological responses (increased heart rate and respiration rate, sweating, etc.) simultaneously and independently of each other.

Question 5

James-Lange theory of emotion

Answer 5

Emotion is a secondary feeling, indirectly caused by the primary feeling, which is the physiological response caused by the presence of a stimulus.

Physiological arousal instigates the experience of a specific emotion.

This theory predicts that if you experience physiological arousal (increased heart rate, for example), this leads to the feeling of emotion (fear, for example).