Exam 8: Emotions

Those who watch television more than four hours each day tend to perceive the world as a meaner and more sinister place than do those who do not watch it so much.

We rarely experience emotion, only doing so when needed.

No one can make you feel an emotion that you ____________ to feel.

These are powerful forces that help to mark the high and low points of our lives.

We motivate ourselves to control impulse, delay gratification, and regulate our moods when we practice emotional intelligence.

We are more likely to do what we have seen; this is the result of viewing the ____________ models that surround us.

Both men and women report wanting to be with this friend when they are under stress, and they also tend to want to reveal more feelings to this person.

This is an emotional process of limited duration that varies in both duration and intensity.

Facilitative and debilitative emotions differ in all ways except:

We facilitate this by displaying emotional self-control and a willingness to delay gratification:

This theory describes how we infer and explain the causes of social behavior.

If we can figure out what triggers a particular emotion, we tend to be more specific when we talk about it.

We are less able to discern whose emotions because they tend to reveal their strengths often?

Those emotions most closely associated with ____________________, or goal attainment, are compassion, happiness, and relief.

To be ______________ effective in a relationship, we must develop our ability to manage emotions in others.

Sadness tends to reduce our energy and metabolism.

Men report being in negative moods or emotion states about twice as often as women.

What we determine to be the reasons for others' behavior often directly influences our ________ __ and feelings toward those people.

By revealing how we feel, see things, and would like things to change, we take steps toward achieving more effective relational health.

Explain one way that cultural differences can affect the expression of emotion.