Exam 13: Emotion and Motivation

If you were to place your best friend in the middle of a dark room and then turn on the lights,his or her reaction might depend on what they saw.If they saw a knife-wielding killer coming at them,they might label this as threatening and experience fear.If they saw 20 best friend throwing confetti and yelling "Happy Birthday," they might label this as happy and then experience joy.The need to assess our surroundings before knowing what kind of emotion to feel is the basis of the __________ theory of emotions.

Long-term potentiation (LTP)is a process that takes place while we sleep,thus allowing __________ from the day to get strengthened.

The main tenet of __________ theory is that a person should express emotions,such as anger,to prevent them from building up and exploding.

The pathway that connects the thalamus to the amygdala and allows for rapid interpretation of stimuli so that the correct emotion can be experienced is called the __________ pathway.

Robert Plutchik proposed a model of emotions that suggested the existence of 8 primary emotions.

Animals will work long and hard to stimulate the ____________,the part of the brain that is generally responsible for processing rewards.

On Friday at 4:59 pm,your boss comes into your office and says,"I need to talk with you first thing Monday morning," and then walks out.Needless to say you are concerned that you have done something wrong,but using the process of emotional __________,you convince yourself that he just wants to talk about the process of the project that you've been working on .This way you don't have to spend the weekend worrying about what you may be in trouble for!

__________ refers to showing no emotion,even though the person is actually feeling one.A good example of this would be the use of a "poker face" when playing cards.

In order to know whether someone is displaying a real emotion or a fake emotion,it is necessary to study the __________,or shape,of the muscle groups they are using.

William came home from work one night to find that his wife looked like she'd had a long day.Her face screamed "I'm angry," and she was very quiet.When he asked her if anything was wrong,he got a short,terse "nothing." Which part of his wife's emotional component was speaking louder than her words?

All emotions have a valence,which refers to a positive or negative value along a continuum.

The levels of __________ in your blood help your brain determine whether or not to stimulate eating behaviors.

In general,which of the following groups can detect and interpret nonverbal cues the best?

According to research,who is better at flirting,men or women?

Despite the fact that a prefrontal lobotomy can,in fact,help to reduce the intensity of emotions,it also has the side effect of

When he received his Psychology 101 exam back in class,Martin was somewhat satisfied to learn that he got an 84% ,or a grade of "B".Strangely,however,when he learned that the class average was an 87%,he started to feel less satisfaction with his own results.This type of comparison and its impact on our feelings about ourselves,is called __________.

A(n)__________is an unlearned complex behavior with a fixed pattern throughout a species.

Jason's wife Mitzi told him,"I think you should know that I'm pregnant!" After he regained consciousness and got some of the color back in his face,Jason started thinking about what life would be like as a father,imagining all of the joys and struggles that would be involved.Jason's process of imagining how he would feel about something that might happen in the future is called affective __________.

Of the following emotions,which was considered to be a primary emotion by Robert Plutchik?

According to the adaptation-level phenomenon,people who have more will not be happy, because they will simply want more in a never-ending cycle.