Exam 11: Emotion, Stress, and Health

Damien is worried about attending medical school, but his siblings all made it through med school and he doesn't want to admit his fears. What should Damien do to cope with his worries?

Asians and Asian Americans tend to:

Research on the relationship between personality traits and cancer risk indicates that:

Taylor finds it hard to believe that her boyfriend wants to see other women after their two years of exclusive dating. She tries to banish all thoughts of him from her mind, but it doesn't seem to work. Her strategy is not effective because:

Charles Darwin argued that human facial expressions are innate. What evolutionary reason did Darwin give for the evolution of these expressions?

Expression of an emotion that the person does not really feel is called:

The process by which the facial muscles send messages to the brain about the basic emotion being expressed is called:

_________ is a state of arousal involving facial and bodily changes, brain activation, cognitive appraisals, subjective feelings, and tendencies toward action, all shaped by cultural rules.

Which occupation would be more likely to require emotion work as a job requirement?

________ are social and cultural rules that regulate when, how, and where a person may express (or suppress) emotions.

In most people, the __________ appears to be specialized for the motivation to approach others.

Baking bread, getting a massage, exercising, and mindfulness meditation techniques are all ways to:

There are some problems that cannot be solved, but we can change the way we think about the problem. What coping method is being used when a person says, "I'm devastated that our home was flooded, but at least it is still standing. Some of the houses closer to the river are completely gone"?

The modern era of stress research began:

Fiona broke her arm cycling on the weekend but is telling everyone she is relieved she didn't break her leg like her brother did a year earlier. What response to stress is Fiona displaying?

Gina jumps with fear as she feels a hand on her shoulder while walking on a deserted path across campus. Her fear evaporates when she hears her boyfriend's voice saying, "What are you doing out so late, Gina?" What brain structure played a key role when Gina's fear evaporated?

Dr. Cabbot is recording from a mirror neuron in a monkey's brain. When will the neuron fire?

When 1-year-old babies in an experiment were placed on an ambiguous visual cliff and saw an expression of fear on their mothers' faces, what portion of them crossed the cliff?

How might a psychoneuroimmunologist explain the increased risk of catching the common cold during periods of prolonged stress?

The Type A behaviour that is dangerous to health is: