Exam 11: Emotion, Stress, and Health

________ emotions are reflected in the emotion words that young children learn first: happy, sad, mad, and scared.

Trent is 4 years old and has two older brothers. One day, both of his brothers show the same facial expression but Trent cannot recognize it. What emotion are they likely displaying?

Darwin argued that facial expressions of emotion are:

In order to get around the human ability to mask emotions and more clearly define facial expressions for particular emotions, Paul Ekman and his associates:

According to Paul Ekman, which of the following is one of the universal facial expressions?

Rachel is stuck in a low-paying job with a boss who offers no support. She can't quit because of her family's financial problems, but there is no hope of promotion in this job. When her work-related problems are compared to those of her boss (an executive supervising 10 employees):

________ is a hormone secreted by the adrenal cortex that elevates blood sugar and protects the body's tissues in case of injury.

What is the key characteristic of the Type A personality that is related to heart disease?

A person is in the ________ of the general adaptation syndrome when the muscles tense, blood pressure rises, and digestion shuts down.

During stress, the hypothalamus can control the release of hormones from the adrenal glands via two major pathways. Describe the two pathways and the effects of the hormones they control.

What is the one emotion that North American men express more freely than women?

Stanley Schachter and Jerome Singer argued that two factors determine the experience of emotion. The two factors are:

In one study of 16 couples, the wives had to lie in an MRI machine, periodically receiving a mild but stressful electric shock on their ankles. During the procedure, some women received a touch on the hand from a stranger; others held hands with their husbands. What general principle can be drawn from the results of this study?

There are some problems that cannot be solved, but we can change the way we think about them. What coping method is being used when a person says, "Well, I may have lost my accounting job, but I always did want a chance to work with people, and now I can find a job that allows me to do that"?

As the four winners of the grade-school spelling bee posed for a picture, each was recollecting over the day's success. Which of the following children exhibits an external locus of control?

Realistic optimists are more likely than pessimists to do which of the following?

"It's too bad my car was damaged by the tree that fell on it during the hurricane, but now I can get that new car I've wanted for so long." This is an example of which coping strategy?

During an interrogation, an FBI agent tries to scare a suspect into making a confession by saying "You know, they have this new type of lie detector that can measure activity in different regions of the brain to determine whether a person is lying or telling the truth." What technology is the agent referring to?

Finding out what your legal resources are when you have been the victim of a crime is an example of:

Facial expressions do not always reveal the emotions underneath. The villain in Shakespeare's Henry VI said, "Why, I can smile, and murder while I smile; and cry content to that which grieves my heart; and wet my cheeks with artificial tears, and frame my face to all occasions." How did Paul Ekman and his colleagues distinguish between authentic and false facial expressions of emotion?