Exam 11: Emotion, Stress, and Health

At work, it is not the corporate managers but the people engaged in routine and predictable jobs that suffer most from job stress.

A person who mimics a happy facial expression will:

Jillian got a B on her psychology midterm and she is proud and overjoyed. But her friend Halley, who also got a B, is absolutely furious. What expectations and attributions are probably affecting their emotional reactions?

Julius Segal, a psychologist who worked with Holocaust survivors, wrote that a key element in their recovery was:

A person who is guilty and fearful will likely show:

Mice show signs of stress when they are crowded, but humans often seek crowds (just think of a mosh pit!). Chapter 11 (Emotion, Stress, and Health) gives us insight into this topic. Integrate the research on crowding with your knowledge from Chapter 8 (Behaviour in Social and Cultural Context) concerning cultural differences in personal space and conversational distance.

Match the definitions with the appropriate terms. -The process by which the facial muscles send messages to the brain about the basic emotion being expressed.

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

Which occupation would be more likely to require emotion work as a job requirement?

PNI researchers are especially interested in the:

The emotions of hostility, ecstasy, irritability, and nostalgia would be included among the prototypical emotions.

It is possible that a man from Germany would have a(n) ________ locus of control, whereas a traditional woman from China would have a(n) ________ locus of control.

The inner part of the adrenal glands sends out two hormones that play central roles in energizing emotion. What are these hormones, and what happens when they activate the sympathetic nervous system?

Feeling anxious, depressed, and helpless can delay the healing of wounds after surgery.

The polygraph detects the physiological patterns of responses that are specific to lying.

People don't usually display their emotions in facial expressions unless other people are around.

According to Charles Darwin, what was the evolutionary significance of human facial expressions?

In order to engage in either a "fight or flight" response to danger, the hypothalamus first activates the ________, ultimately causing the release of ________.

Primary control is an effort to modify reality by changing other people, the situation, or events.

Suppose you take a rat and expose it to a large house cat. If the rat showed no fear of the cat, you might predict the rat had damage to the: