quiz 7

Question 1

emotion

Answer 1

• functional reaction to a stimulus event or change

Question 2

response coherence postulate

Answer 2

channels that underlie emotions are associated together; they do not act independently

Question 3

emotion prototype

Answer 3

average meaning that all words in the emotion category have in common
- happiness, love, surprise, sadness, fear, anger

Question 4

qualia

Answer 4

primitive subjective experiences

- emotion words that represent affective experiences are not fully describable by other words

Question 5

epileptic aura

Answer 5

psychological changes preceding the occurrence of a seizure

Question 6

emotional education

Answer 6

learning to label feelings with emotion words

Question 7

law of change

Answer 7

the greater the stimulus change, the stronger the subsequent emotion

Question 8

law of emotional momentum

Answer 8

an emotion stimulus can repeatedly elicit the same emotion provided that an individual has not habituated to the stimulus

Question 9

honeymoon effect

Answer 9

high frequency of intercourse early in a marriage

Question 10

james-lange theory

Answer 10

each specific emotion is accompanied by a unique pattern of physiological responses (physiological response comes first)

Question 11

cognitive arousal theory

Answer 11

a pattern of physiological responses could serve as the basis for different affective experiences; how the pattern is perceived

Question 12

excitation transfer

Answer 12

whether arousal comes from original stimulus or elsewhere does not matter

Question 13

cannon’s theory

Answer 13

emergency response concept

Question 14

emergency response

Answer 14

fighting or fleeing

- make the organism more capable in dealing with situations that produce fear, rage, and pain

Question 15

action readiness

Answer 15

state of preparedness to execute a particular kind of behavior
- felt as urges or impulses to act in a certain fashion depending on the emotional experience

Question 16

mood

Answer 16

• last longer than emotions
• intensity is less than that of emotions
• appear without direction or an intended outcome
• positive or negative, only the two dimensions

Question 17

morningness-eveningness

Answer 17

the time of day that a person functions best

Question 18

seasonal affective disorder

Answer 18

depression, anxiety, sadness, daytime tiredness especially in the winter

Question 19

situational definition

Answer 19

what features of stimulus changes are responsible for emotions
- assumes that emotions are caused by people’s reactions to changing events in the environment and ignores how people might appraise the events

Question 20

expression-feeling link

Answer 20

different facial expressions are linked with different emotional feelings

Question 21

efference hypothesis

Answer 21

the activated brain circuit sends infor to facial muscles which generate the expression that is synonymous with the emotional feeling

Question 22

emotion recognition

Answer 22

studies asking people to name an emotion based on someone’s facial expression

Question 23

readout hypothesis

Answer 23

a facial expression conveys an individual’s emotional feeling to another individual

Question 24

behavioral ecology hypothesis

Answer 24

facial expressions are issued to serve one’s social motives in a particular situation and need not be linked to emotional feelings

Question 25

social facial vasodilation

Answer 25

during certain social situations the small blood vessels of the face and neck expand to increase blood flow in those areas

Question 26

display rules

Answer 26

govern the expressions that individuals must exhibit in public and need not be linked to emotional feelings
- voluntary

Question 27

motive for action

Answer 27

induce the individual to deal specifically with the emotional event

Question 28

appraisal tendency hypothesis

Answer 28

each emotion has a unique influence on peop;e’s judgements

Question 29

set point level of happiness

Answer 29

the level of unhappiness or happiness that people consistently return to

Question 30

hedonic treadmill

Answer 30

events that decrease or increase happiness only have a temporary effect