Exam 8: Emotion and Motivation-Part C

The fast pathway of threat detection involves the thalamus.

Cultural worldviews usually are weakened when people are reminded of the inevitability of death.

As an action becomes more difficult,awareness of the motivation for engaging in the action decreases.

People tend to speak more slowly when they are telling a lie.

There are six major muscles in the face that give rise to 43 different facial expressions.

Research has suggested that testosterone may be the hormonal basis of the sex drive in both men and women.

The emotion of misery is associated with high arousal and negative valence.

Participants who were shown pictures of tennis players who had either just won a point or lost a point were able to tell who was experiencing a positive emotion versus a negative emotion based solely on viewing the athletes' bodies.

When asked to inhibit emotion,people exhibit more cortical activity and less amygdala activity.

Someone with a poker face is using the display rule of masking.

People rate others as more hostile if they are extending their middle finger while doing so.

Different patterns of muscle contraction in the face can result in approximately 10,000 unique facial expressions.

Our evolutionary ancestors,but not present humans,preferred green vegetables to fatty foods.

Leptin-resistance is associated with obesity.

The ability to delay gratification is a better predictor of academic success in elementary school than is IQ.

Anorexia typically strikes young women in their early 20s.

People who have obese romantic partners are judged negatively relative to people who have nonobese romantic partners.

The need for belongingness and love sits atop Maslow's hierarchy of needs.

You will be more likely to report that a person is attractive if you meet him or her immediately after intense physical exercise.

People who cannot experience emotion due to brain damage usually suffer severe impairments in logical reasoning.