Exam 11: Emotion, Stress, and Health

Starting at the end of the first year, babies begin to alter their own behaviours in reaction to their parents' facial expressions of emotion.

The ________ is important for recognizing emotional expressions and processing emotional tone.

Match the definitions with the appropriate terms. -A system activated to energize the body to respond to stressors.

Schachter and Singer argued that two factors determine the experience of emotion. Those two factors are:

Body movements that reveal pleasure/displeasure and liking/dislike are generally recognized across cultures.

A person is in the ________ when vulnerability to physical problems increases, and illness, such as chronic hypertension, develops.

The amygdala scrutinizes information for its emotional importance and makes the initial decision to approach or withdraw from a situation.

The Japanese proverb "To lose is to win" illustrates secondary control.

Explain why the small structure in the brain, the amygdala, is considered a key structure in regard to emotion.

When one-year-old babies were placed on an ambiguous visual cliff, ________ crossed when their mothers showed an expression of fear.

Human faces have nearly 160 muscles, enabling us to portray a multitude of human emotions.

________ is defined as a general expectation about whether the results of your actions are under your own control or beyond your control.

Which of the following is typically NOT considered to be a primary emotion?

Display rules are social and cultural rules that regulate when, how, and where a person may express, or suppress, emotions.

Men and women are equally likely to:

Which of the following outcomes would be most likely after a Japanese-Canadian business session?

Learning deep-breathing techniques to reduce anxiety about having been victimized by a crime is an example of problem-focused coping.

You have just finished a very stressful final exam period filled with late nights and high anxiety. You start to feel yourself coming down with flulike symptoms. According to Selye's GAS, you are in the ________ phase.

When babies were placed on an ambiguous visual cliff:

The risk factor of the Type A personality is antagonistic hostility.