Exam 12: A: Emotional,stress,and Healthemotional,stress,and Health

Severe stress produces many of the same symptoms as illness.

​The ability to perceive,imagine,and understand emotions and use that information in making decisions is known as emotional ____________.

Most people who experience extremely traumatic events develop post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).

On average,unmarried people are happier than married people.

Most people with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)have a smaller than average ________ in the brain.​

One attempt to use physiological measurement of an emotion for a practical purpose is the polygraph,or lie-detector test.Describe how a polygraph is supposed to work.Explain why the test is unacceptable for many purposes.

Feeling personal rejection causes more health risk than other types of stress.​

Many activities activate parts of both the sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems.

The branch of the autonomic nervous system responsible for enhancing digestion and other nonemergency functions is the ____________ nervous system.

A guilty-knowledge test is similar to a polygraph test except that the examiner asks different types of questions.

Most people are good at detecting when others are lying.

Most psychologists who support the idea of basic emotions list these six: happiness,sadness,fear,anger,disgust,and ___________.

On average,young adults are happier than old people.

Researchers have wondered if they could elicit or enhance an emotional response by molding a participant's posture and breathing pattern into a pattern typical of a given emotion.Describe what happened in the study illustrated in your text in which participants were made to smile by instructions that did not include the word smile.

Many researchers measure anxiety by measuring increases or decreases in the strength of the ___________ reflex.​

The raised-eyebrow expression has different meanings from one culture to another.

State the James-Lange theory and briefly describe evidence that supports it.

On average in the United States,being born in a recent decade adds to one's happiness.

Coping with stress by reinterpreting the situation to make it seem less threatening is known as ____________.​

​Any stimulus that excites intense emotion activates the "fight-or-flight" system,also known as the ________________ nervous system.