Exam 11: Emotion, Stress, and Health

Primary control is an effort to accept reality by changing your own attitude, goals, or emotions.

The ________ is necessary to form a conditioned emotional response to a stimulus.

The left hemisphere of the brain is where recognition of emotional expression primarily occurs.

Although many people in many cultures experience anger or sadness, it is ________ that determines when those emotions are experienced.

People in most cultures feel angry in response to an insult, but they often disagree on how an insult is defined.

Optimists are more likely than pessimists to do all of the following EXCEPT:

Which of the following statements is true?

Proneness to anger is a significant risk factor for coronary heart disease.

People with a Type A personality show very quick physiological responses to threat.

A person with damage to the left prefrontal cortex may lose the capacity for joy.

How has the relationship between emotion and thought been viewed over the last few centuries? What changes in this "either-or" thinking have occurred in recent years?

Optimists tend to avoid facing bad news.

When people try to hide their feelings with an inauthentic expression, they use different groups of muscles than they do for authentic emotions.

________ is defined as an effort to modify reality by changing other people, the situation, or events.

An effective way to cope with stress is to give support to others rather than always being on the receiving end.

Loneliness and worry can suppress the immune system and permit existing viruses, such as herpes, to erupt.

A North American man would be likely to:

Briefly explain how the HPA axis system works.

A study of people with spinal-cord injuries found that two-thirds of them felt the disability had positive side effects.

________ is the study of the relationships among psychology, the nervous and endocrine systems, and the immune system.