Exam 6: Emotionality

Ekman showed films of surgery and accidents to American and Japanese individuals. When viewing alone, people from both cultures displayed the same facial expressions, but when the experimenter was present, _____ would not fully display their emotional reactions.

Darwin's principle of _____ acknowledges that emotional expression can result from the structure of the nervous system; in other words, there are specific physiological reactions for different emotions.

The amygdala has direct connections with the _____ lobes, which are involved in planning and decision making.

Panksepp's approach to understanding emotionality and brain processes is to look for core processes across species. Which of the following is NOT one of the core processes he proposes?

One can see basic representations of laughing and crying at the level of the

Darwin interpreted the universality of emotional response as support for the idea that all humans are decended from a "single parent stock"; by this, he meant that emotions developed

Emotional expression not only enables social communication, it also modifies our ability to

Researchers distinguish between emotions, which are _____, and moods, which are _____.

Darwin's principle of _____ refers to the situation in which ritualized behaviors are performed in response to a particular internal state.

Ekman believes that facial expressions associated with lying are different from those that portray true emotions. He suggests that when one attempts to produce an emotional expression that differs from one's internal experience, there will be leakage in the form of _____that quickly convey the hidden emotion.

Emotions evolved for their adaptive value in dealing with _____, universal human predicaments such as losses, frustrations, and achievements.

The areas of the right temporal lobe known as the _____ gyrus appears to respond selectively to faces as compared to other types of complex visual stimuli.

Darwin's principle of _____ suggests that opposite internal states produce opposite external movements; for example, we shrug our shoulders when we feel helpless because it is the opposite set of movements from when we feel aggressive.

Facial expressions seen in primates during play and submission map onto human expressions of _____ and _____, respectively.

Individuals with damage to the _____ appear not to incorporate the emotional consequences of their own actions into their everyday behaviors; thus, it has been suggested that this area is related to our ability to induce an emotion in ourselves through cognitive means or reduce an emotional reaction.

In the baby talk used by caregivers, it is the _____ and exaggerated _____ patterns that interest infants rather than the meaning and grammar.

Darwin made a number of important observations about emotions. Which of the following is NOT one of them?

Ekman (2009) suggested that Darwin made five important contributions to our study of emotion. Explain each.

Wundt proposed a model of emotion that had three dimensions. Which of the following is NOT on of those dimensions?

The calls of various species give more than just emotional information; they also refer to objects and events in the environment. This has led researchers to suggest that human _____ evolved from an emotional vocalization system.