Exam 13: Emotion and Motivation

Theorist Robert Plutchik proposed that the best way to understand emotions was to conceptualize them as existing in a three-dimensional figure that he called the emotion __________.

The facial feedback hypothesis suggests that a person who makes a certain facial expression will feel the corresponding emotion,as long as he or she is not feeling a competing emotion.

"Turn that frown upside down,mister!" Maybe you heard this line from a grandparent at some point in your life.Okay,if you are a girl,maybe it was "missy," but you get the point! According to the __________ hypothesis,smiling can,in fact,cause you to become happier!

According to the __________ theory of emotions,the mental and physiological components of emotions happen simultaneously.

The James-Lange theory of emotions states that the physiological and psychological components of emotion occur simultaneously.

The __________ theory states that workers decide how satisfied they feel with their jobs by comparing themselves to others.

It is possible to cause a monkey to develop a condition called psychic blindness by surgically removing that animal's __________.When this happens the animal will lose its fear of objects that might ordinarily cause terror and extreme avoidant behaviors.

Based on your knowledge of the theories of Lawrence Kohlberg,which part of the brain would help with the reasoning of something like the Heinz Dilemma?

Shortly before bedtime one evening,you were studying hard for your upcoming psychology exam and you got a paper cut on your index finger.The next morning when you woke up,the cut had a new scab on it,indication that it was healing.Which theory of sleep best explains how your body healed itself overnight?

The theorist who suggested that prior experiences of a stimulus can cause an exposure effect that primes us to react in a certain way to that stimulus in the future was __________.

The two divisions of the autonomic nervous system are called the sympathetic and the parasympathetic divisions.

Which of the following is a reliable predictor of happiness?

Between 1949 and 1952,over 50,000 people in the United States of America,including the sister of President John F.Kennedy,received __________.

Although languages may differ from culture to culture,the universality hypothesis of Charles Darwin suggests that __________ are uniform across different cultures.

A __________ is a fear that leaves people so terrified of a specific stimulus,or trigger,that it impairs their everyday functioning.