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Chapter 13: Emotion
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Q1. Describe the two controversies, over the interplay of our physiology, expressions, and experience in emotions
Q2. Imagine that your brain could not sense your heart pounding on your
stomach churning. According to the James-Lange theory, and the Cannon-Bard theory, how would this affect your
experienced emotions?
Q3. How is Schachter and Singer’s two factor theory similar and different to the two previous theories on
emotions?
Q4. How do the sympathetic division and parasympathetic division of the autonomic nervous system control our
arousal?
Q5. How does prolonged physical arousal, and too little arousal affect particular tasks?
Q6. How does the amygdala affect emotion?
Q7. Provide example of how emotions affect different areas of the brain cortex?
Q8. Describe the importance of the nucleus accumbens regarding to emotion
Q9. What evidence did psychologist George Hohmann provide supporting the James-Lange theory?
Q10. What evidence supports the Cannon-Bard theory?
Q11. How did Schachter and Singer prove the spillover effect?
Q12. How does a lie detector or polygraph work, and what are the two problems that make it a flawed test?
Q13. Provide evidence how we experience emotion unconsciously before cognition?
Q14. How did Paul Whalen and his colleagues describe the role of the amygdala?
Q15. How does Richard Lazarus explain cognition plays a role in emotional responses without conscious
awareness?
Q16. Describe the two routes of emotions, demonstrated by Zajonc and LeDoux compared to Lazarus, Schachter,
and Singer
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Q1. Describe the research study conducted by Joan Kellerman, James Lewis, and James Laird
Q2. How did Robet Kesterbaum, explain how we read nonverbal cues?
Q3. How does experience sensitize us to particular emotions?
Q4. How did woman?s intuition apply to Jackie Larsen?s encounter with Chrisotpher Bono?
Q5. Describe specific gender differences in nonverbal sensitivity, empathy, and expressiveness
Q6. How did Paul Ekman and Maureen O?Sullivan explain the difficulty to detect deceiving smiles?
Q7. Provide examples of nonverbal body language, and subtle expressions in revealing feelings of individuals
towards others
Q8. How did Justin Kruger and his colleagues explain that communication via email is ambiguous regarding
emotions?
Q9. Provide examples of how gestures vary with culture
Q10. Explain how facial expressions also have different meanings
Q11. How did Charles Darwin explain how people share universal facial explanations?
Q12. Provide examples of how cultures differ in how much emotions they express
Q13. Describe the research findings relevant to the facial feedback effect
Q14. How did Sara Snodgrass demonstrate the behavior feedback phenomenon while walking?
Q15. How did Kathleen Burns Vaugn and John Lanzetta, provide evidence that there is a neural basis for empathy?
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Q1. How many distinct emotions Carrol Izard isolated as the 10 such basic emotions?
Q2. Describe and provide examples of arousal and valence as two dimensions of emotion
Q3. Provide examples of how fear is harmful and adaptive
Q4, How did Susan Mineka explain why nearly all monkeys reared in the wild fear snakes, yet lab-reared monkeys
do not?
Q5. How did children in the New York City school system become more fearful after observing the trauma of 9/11?
Q6. How does the amygdala play a key role in associating fear, certain situations?
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Q7. Describe an individuals response to fear if there is damage to the amygdala and hippocampus?
Q8. Describe individuals who have a short version of a gene that influences the amygdala's response to frightening
situations
Q9. How do adolescents deal with anger according to their gender?
Q10. Describe how anger is maladaptive to us, and yet beneficial
Q11. Describe the short-term advantages and long-term disadvantages of venting our anger
Q12. Describe the two suggestions in the text to handle our anger
Q13. How does anger communicate strength and competence?
Q14. Describe Charoltte Witviletâ'ss research on the bodily effects of forgiveness?
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Q1. Provide facts of how negative emotions have been the focus of psychology throughout its history
Q2. Provide evidence of how our ups and downs tend to balance according to David Watson and Daniel Kaheman
and his colleagues
Q3. How did the reports of Daniel Gilbert and colleagues prove the statement that we overestimate the duration
of emotions and underestimate our capacity to adapt
Q4. What are the research findings that substantiate people’s view that they would be more happier if they had
more money?
Q5. Describe how wealth is like health , and the effects of growing up rich
Q6. Explain why those of us who enjoy the abundance of the affluent Western world not happier, and how has it
influenced the wealthier but no happier phenomenon in China?
Q7. Based on research studies of Richard Ryan, Tim Kasser, and H.W . Perkins, what predicts a higher life
satisfaction?
Q8. According to the adaptation-level phenomenon, why could we never create a permanent social paradise, and
how does this phenomenon explain why material wants can be insatiable?
Q9. Provide examples of how relative deprivation leads to the effect of comparison
Q10. Describe the five predictors of happiness, and five factors that are not related to happiness
Q11. Describe the “happiness set point”
Q12. What do studies of happiness remind us about emotions, and what do fear, anger, and happiness have in
common?