Exam 11: The Evolution of Emotion

Robert Levy has suggested that Tahitians have neither the concept of, nor even a word for:

Who stated that 'emotions are specialized modes of operation shaped by natural selection'?

Humans with damage to the amygdala appear to be unable to recognise the facial emotion of:

Following a fight between two mammals the following happens:

Following his accident Phineas Gage was described as:

Damage to the orbitofrontal cortex leads to

To Fredrickson, joy embodies the urge to be:

Emotions were seen as arising from adaptations by:

Who wrote 'The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals':

Two ethologists who have studied the evolution of emotional expression in primates are:

The James-Lang theory proposes that:

Nesse has highlighted that the state of anger often involves:

Cortisol and other related hormones (the corticosteroids) are believed to:

The notion of display rules means that:

The notion of a left-hemisphere superiority for positive expressions and a right-hemisphere superiority for negative ones is called the:

The human cortex is how many millimetres thick?

Barbara Fredrickson considers that positive emotions:

Margaret Mead claimed that in Samoan society - there was no such emotion as:

Two areas of the brain implicated in emotional processing are:

Two criticisms of the universality of emotions hypothesis may be called: