Exam 11: Emotion, Stress, and Health

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?

What are the characteristics of Type A individuals? What part of the Type A personality is a risk factor for heart disease?

Sandra is a vice president at a large company. As a woman, what dilemma is she likely to face?

In what ways can having friends improve a person's health?

Innocent people may react to the polygraph because they are nervous about the procedure.

Suppressing thoughts of a person who has harmed you, rather than talking about it with others, tends to be beneficial in reducing emotional responsiveness toward the perpetrator.

Finding out what your legal and financial resources are when you have been victimized by a crime is an example of:

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.

Expression of an emotion that a person does not really feel is called facial feedback.

If you put on an angry face, then:

A person is in the _______________ of the general adaptation syndrome when vulnerability to physical problems increases, and illnesses, such as chronic hypertension, develop.

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

People who have an external locus of control tend to believe that their lives are controlled by luck, fate, or other people.

Ekman and his associates developed a special coding system to analyze and identify each of the nearly __________ muscles of the face, as well as the combinations of muscles associated with various emotions.

Abner has a Type A personality. Which of the following statements is most likely?

When airports are crowded and flights are delayed, it is effective to remember that your perceptions of a situation are as important as the situation itself in influencing the amount of stress that you feel.

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

Which of the following outcomes would be most likely after a Japanese-American business meeting?

Maria has worked as a file clerk for 17 years in a job that is closely supervised and boring. Her boss must make many rapid-fire decisions every day and is always complaining of the pressures of responsibility. Which of them probably has the more stressful job? a. Maria, b. the boss c. both equally d. neither job is stressful

According to the section in your textbook on lie detection: