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Why are volunteers for the 2008 Beijing Olympics required to take classes on how to smile?
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the chinese people are not used to smiling in social situations
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As you get ready for the professor to pass back your graded test, you experience the emotion of anxiety. Using the definition of emotion presented in your textbook, which one of the following is incorrect?
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subjecting experience or feeling-anxiety
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Bill has a very difficult test coming up tomorrow. But he is confused on his plan of attack—that is, in which emotional state he should be when taking the exam. The Yerkes-Dodson law would advise Bill to be:
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in a low state of arousal
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The notion that emotions can help or hinder performance is key to the:
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Yerkes-Dawson Law
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If you wanted to scan a crowd for angry faces, who would you pick and why?
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Michael; men do this task better than women
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The facial feedback theory argues that ____ from the muscles of the face and skin are interpreted as ____ by your brain.
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feedback;emotional feeling
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“I remember when a dog chased me up a tree. I was scared.” What brain part was responsible for storing that memory of that fear?
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amygdala
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Rosie married a very wealthy man and, initially, was extremely happy that she could now afford all the things she could never have before. Six months later, her happiness had lessened. She had become accustomed to having money and now took it for granted. According to recent research, Rosie’s reduction in happiness is due to:
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adaption level theory
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The song “Put on a Happy Face” implies that if we smile, we’ll begin to feel happy. Which explanation of emotion does this idea support?
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facial feedback theory
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The sequence of components for emotion according to the James-Lange theory is:
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physiological changes, interpretation of changes, emotional feeling, overt behavior
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There are unique patterns of arousal for lying that lie detector tests can measure.
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FALSE
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Theories of emotions tend to fit into three categories. What are the names of the categories?
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peripheral theories, cognitive appraisal theories, and affective neuroscience
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Which specialty examines the relationship of emotion and how the brain produces or contributes to emotion?
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affective neuroscience
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Dr. Arkin has developed a theory to explain emotions, which focuses on how emotions result from changes in the body. Dr. Arkin’s theory would be considered a(n):
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periphoral theory
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According to research, the future of lie detection tests could be using:
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a combination of brain and eye scans
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In order to achieve high performance on a simple, familiar task, the Yerkes-Dodson law would recommend:
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high arousal
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You are playing a card game with your friends. You don’t know if one of them is about to win, because of his poker face. Which of the following components of an emotion does poker face best illustrate?
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overt behavior
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The cognitive interpretation of events can influence emotions.
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TRUE
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The ____ explain(s) the steps in emotions by focusing on how we interpret situations.
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The cognitive appraisal theories of emotion
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The ability to perceive and express emotion, understand and reason with emotion, and regulate one’s emotion is called:
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emotional inelligence
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