Exam 17: Emotion

The Cannon-Bard theory of emotion asserts that we are happy because we are smiling, sad because we are crying, and frightened because our hearts are racing and our palms are sweating

Members of all nationalities, cultures, and both sexes agree on this dimension of ideal affect, that is, we all want to "feel good" rather than "feel bad."

This early theory of emotion asserts that we are happy because we are smiling, sad because we are crying, and frightened because our hearts are racing and our palms are sweating

The cognitive-motivational-relational theory of emotion was proposed by

According to this view of emotion, the sights, sounds, physiological processes, and patterns of body movement that occur during experience of the emotion are encoded in clusters of neurons assigned to each of these various sensory modalities.

Cognitive psychologists have determined that telling a lie is more demanding such that it increases a person's

Psychologist Ed Diener has found that income is related to happiness primarily in terms of a person's

According to this notion, you may be able to push anger around and situate it in various places in your mind, but you cannot get rid of it without expressing it.

Each of the basic emotions is entirely distinct-a person simply cannot confuse enjoyment/happiness with fear, sadness with disgust, or contempt with surprise

An emotion can be defined as a

The two-factor theory differs from the James-Lange theory in that James and Lange believed that the generation of emotion was a virtually automatic response to physiological arousal, without the necessity of "higher order" cognitive processes intervening

Although most of us prefer to experience pleasant emotions, the number of possible unpleasant emotional states greatly outnumbers the number of pleasant ones

According to this view of emotion, the sights, sounds, physiological processes, and patterns of body movement that occur during experience of the emotion are encoded in clusters of neurons assigned to each of these various sensory modalities.

Researchers estimated that about 50% of one's level of happiness is determined by ________, 10% by one's life circumstances, and 40% by one's "intentional activities."