Exam 8: Emotion and Motivation-Part C

People with Capgras syndrome suffer from amnesia and forget the names of their family members.

Observers can often estimate someone's emotional state by considering,among other things,posture.

The human body begins making DHEA,the hormone involved in the initial onset of sexual desire,when puberty begins.

Psychologists define pleasure as the lack of pain.

If your body needs energy,it sends an orexigenic signal to tell the brain to switch hunger on.

Intrinsic rewards can undermine extrinsic rewards.

People with a promotion focus tend to be more motivated by achieving gains than by avoiding losses.

The main function of facial mimicry is emotion regulation.

In multidimensional scaling,emotions are mapped on the two dimensions of appraisal and valence.

Sexual desire in human females changes dramatically over the course of the menstrual cycle.

Polygraphs can detect lies at a rate significantly better than chance is able to because polygraphs have low error rates.

Bulimia nervosa is a disorder characterized by binge eating followed by purging.

Sincere facial expressions are more symmetrical than are insincere expressions.

Cannon and Bard proposed the two-factor theory of emotion.

Recent research has indicated that men and women think about sex equally often.

Capgras syndrome is caused by damage to the neural connections between the temporal lobe and the limbic system.

William James believed that much of human motivation was governed by instincts.

The hypothalamus plays an important role in the experience of emotion by appraising the stimuli.

Display rules for emotional expression are the same in all cultures.

Hull and Spence believed that organisms behave in ways to increase internal drive levels.