Overview of Emotions and Passionate Love Questions.1. Emotions areA. A result of your parasympathetic nervous systemB. Combinations of thoughts and arousalC. Derived from thoughts aloneD. Typically originated in the temporal lobes2. According to the Cognitive Explanation of emotionsA. Emotions are thoughts that exist independently of the physical bodyB. Stem from how you interpret events around youC. Stem from how you interpret the physical arousal you are feelingD. Both B and C3. Fear is often accompanied by a “flight” reaction. Which of the following would not be an acceptable cognitive explanation of a fear response in this situation?A. I am afraid because I am running away.B. I am afraid because I am running away, but I am also afraid because I think I am afraid and am reacting to some fear stimulus.C. I am afraid because an area in my brain is active that is related to fear.D. I am afraid because I am experiencing arousal and the events around me suggest that this is arousal is fear.4. Thoughts---> Arousal and/or Behaviors - - - -> EmotionThe diagram above is an illustration of:A. The James-Lange TheoryB. The Schachter-Siger TheoryC. The CannonBard TheoryD. An incorrect, discredited theory5. According to the Cannon-Bard TheoryA. A specific area in the brain is responsible for emotions. It can cause fear when activated.B. When we interpret an event nerve impulses are sent to separate, unrelated areas for the cognitive experience of emotion and physiological arousal.C. We experience the same kind of arousal from a variety of causes and then have to use the events around us to suggest the cause of the arousal that we are experiencing,D. We interpret our behaviors and arousal to determine that we are experiencing an emotion.6. Which of the following is support for the Schachter-Singer Theory of emotions?A. Certain areas of our brain are activated for specific emotions.B. During sleep, people who have breathing problems will often experience panic attacks. They wake up in a intense state of fear. C. We all have natural differences in arousal with brain activity alone.D. Men who have undergone strenuous exercise will often interpret an elevated heart rate as increased sexual arousal.7. Bipolar disorder:A. Involves extreme swings in mood from mania to depressionB. Is a condition where mood is unrelated to environmentC. Supports the physiological explanation for emotionsD. All of the above8. According to the book, the most important conclusion regarding emotions is:A. The physiological explanation is always the bestB. Freud liedC. Emotions stem from a number of different process according to situationD. Emotions and arousal are separate systems in the brain9. The AmygdalaA. Is the part of the brain where cognitions about anger and fear generatedB. Can be thought of as an emotion relay station that receives input and stimulates action elsewhere.C. Deals with positive experiencesD. Is overactive in people who are emotionally “flat” 10. Phineas Gage severed the connection to hisA. Prefrontal cortexB. AmygdalaC. Limbic systemD. Nervous system11. Following his injury Phineas GageA. Had severe physical symptoms including hearing loss, and motor control problemsB. Eventually recovered some of his emotional controlC. Became uncharacteristically obstinate, erratic, and impulsiveD. All of the above12. ___________ is the part of the brain that links emotional arousal to thoughts and behaviors that guide actions:A. The amygdalaB. The reticular activating systemC. The hippocampus D. The prefrontal cortex13. The _____ branch of the ______ nervous system sends impulses about emotion from your brain to various glands and organs in your body.A. Autonomic; peripheral B. Somatic; peripheralC. Sympathetic; autonomicD. Parasympathetic; autonomic14. The stimulation mentioned above:A. Causes increased heart rate, sweaty palms, dilated pupilsB. Changes output of neurotransmitters in the hypothalamusC. Initiates reduction of the stress responseD. Is under voluntary control15. The lie detector test assumes:A. People become emotionally aroused when they tell a lieB. Emotional arousal manifests in physiological responsesC. An individual is unable to hide lies because arousal is involuntaryD. All of the above16. Responses on a lie detector test are recorded on aA. ElectroencephalogramB. PolygraphC. HRP (Heart Rate, Respiration, Perspiration Measurement Device)D. All of the above17. A problem with lie detector tests isA. People can be trained to fool themB. People become aroused when asked high stakes questions regardless of guiltC. If the crime was repressed, the criminal would be unaware of their guilt and not respond physiologically D. Sociopaths do not feel guilt and therefore would not experience emotional arousal18. In a guilty knowledge test:A. Suspects are asked free response questions about a crime and asked to talk about aset list of information that may have been at the crime scene.B. A patient is asked to respond “yes” or “no” regarding their knowledge certain information. Emotional responses are then measured to detect lies. C. A subjects emotional arousal will increase following a true statement about the crime if they know information about the crime that they shouldn’tD. Is unsupported by any empirical Evidence19. In the case study about the guilty knowledge test on staged cheating during a false intelligence test: A. Approximately 70% of the students agreed to cheatB. Students who cheated showed only a slight increase in hand perspiration rateC. The study was able to identify almost 100% of the innocent students D. When the topic of cheating was originally raised, cheaters and non cheaters showed comparable levels of arousal20. If I showed you a picture of a person displaying an emotion from another culture, you would be able to identify it regardless of what culture that person was from.A. TrueB. FalseC. True except for asian culturesD. True but not in people who have had very little exposure to other cultures.21. Which of the following is true?A. People from cultures feel different emotionsB. People from different cultures are more or less willing to display different emotions publiclyC. Men most likely feel emotions more intensely than womenD. Men and women are equally willing to express emotionDiscuss stories of “emma’s growth” and interpretation of a pile of manure (p237)22. Which of the following is not related to individual differences in emotionA. Cultural
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