Exam 12: Motivation and Emotion

Although the groups in Schachter and Singer's study were exposed to the same angry confederate, one group reported more subsequent feelings of anger than the other. Why?

Which of the following statements identifies one of your text's suggestions regarding the generality of evolutionary accounts of aggression?

The autonomic nervous system has two branches: the sympathetic and the parasympathetic. What does each do?

Schachter and Singer investigated physiological concomitants of emotion. In general, their results suggest that __________.

At any time other than during the estrus cycle, the female animal will reject the male animal's sexual advances. However, during estrus she becomes a willing sexual partner. What three mechanisms are responsible for this change in attitude?

Which gland(s) is (are) stimulated by sympathetic excitation?

Dr. Abdallah conducts studies in which hormone levels typically constitute the independent variables and behavioral measures are the dependent variables. In Dr. Brigham's research, behaviors are the independent variables, and hormone levels constitute the dependent variables. Which of the following alternatives correctly identifies these researchers' assumptions regarding the causal relationship between hormones and behavior?

In Ekman's studies of emotional experience, participants are usually drawn from either literate, Western cultures, or isolated, preliterate cultures. This describes the studies' __________ variable.

Cultural influences on the expression of emotion are apparent by the age of __________.

Which of the following is the correct order in Abraham Maslow's hierarchy of needs?

Fannie gives fleeting smiles now and then. Glenn directs smiles toward other people. Hilary shows fear in appropriate situations. How old is each child?

"Be all that you can be," exhorted the U.S. Army in one of its recruitment campaigns. In Maslow's terms, the army is promoting itself as the royal road to self-__________.

Ouch! A paper cut! The pain information will travel by the __________ pathway to the thalamus and the __________.

The results of the Schachter-Singer experiment indicate that __________.

Cannon argued that sympathetic arousal serves as an emergency reaction that mobilizes the organism for "fight or flight." Why was this explanation deemed too simplistic?

Why might it be a bad idea to think of obesity as a genetic defect?

Regarding the recent increase in the obesity rate, which of the following statements is TRUE?

Your text notes that aggression is related to both sensation-seeking and impulsivity. What type of correlation might you predict between sensation-seeking and impulsivity scores?

Your text describes a study in which participants viewed photos of fat and thin women and decided whether or not letter strings presented on a computer screen spelled real words. According to your text's chapter on memory, what is the name for the letter task?

Estrus is (a)n __________.