PSYCHOLOGY FINAL EXAM QUIZ 9

______ is the tendency of facial muscle states to trigger corresponding feelings such as fear, anger, or happiness.

facial feedback

______ is the major resource of energy. It is also known as "blood sugar."

glucose

The _____ is an approach to lie detection, which assesses a suspect's physiological response to crime-scene details known only to police investigators.

guilty knowledge test

Orexin is an appetite hormone secreted by the:

hypothalamus

Emotion is a response that includes physiological arousal, expressive behavior, and conscious experience. Which list describes these three components?

pounding heart, increased pace, sense of fear

Performance on tasks depends on arousal level as well as the type of task. For optimal performance on a difficult task:

relatively low arousal is best.

According to the Schachter-Singer two-factor theory of emotion, which is the correct sequence of events when a car drives directly toward a group and they experience emotion?

see an oncoming car; heart pounds and, at the same time, the arousal is cognitively labeled; experience fear

In Maslow's hierarchy of needs, ____ comes after Esteem needs

self-actualization

According to research done by Plomin and Stunkard, identical twins will have _____ weights, even when raised apart. This suggests that _____ of person-to-person body differences are explained by genes.

similar, 2/3

A woman, alone in a house, ignores the creaking sounds she hears and experiences no stress. Another woman might hear the same sounds, suspect an intruder, and thus become alarmed. These different reactions illustrate the importance of:

stress appraisal.

According to the text, in looking at 206 studies of discerning truth from lies, people were _____ percent accurate.

54

A friend is feeling very edgy about an upcoming test and is consuming large quantities of starchy, carbohydrate-laden foods. However, she is also surprised by how much of this type of food she is eating. What can explain her eating behavior?

Carbohydrates help to increase levels of serotonin, which can have calming effects.

_____ is the tendency to maintain a balanced internal state, regulating any aspect of body chemistry around a particular level.

Homeostasis

Which theory suggests people would NOT experience intense anger unless they first notice their racing heart or other symptoms of physiological arousal?

James-Lange theory

______ people tend to spend more time social networking.

Lonely

Women appear to be more sensitive to nonverbal cues than men. Which research finding supports this?

Research has found all of these things are true.

_____ conceded that people's brains process and react to vast amounts of information without their conscious awareness.

Richard Lazarus

Identify an emotion-control center of the brain.

amygdala

In a crowd of faces, researchers have found that people are quickest to detect a(n) ___________ face.

angry

The sympathetic nervous system is to _____ as the parasympathetic nervous system is to _____.

arousal; calming

Maia has plenty of food and lives in a nice house. Now, she feels she needs to find a lover or even a close friend or two with whom she can share her life. According to Abraham Maslow, what is motivating her?

belongingness and love needs

The secretion of PYY _____ hunger and the secretion of orexin _____ hunger.

decreases; increases

According to Carroll Izard, there are 10 basic emotions that humans experience, and most of these are present during infancy. Which is one of these basic emotions?

disgust

The idea that a physiological need creates an aroused state that motivates us to satisfy the need:

drive-reduction theory

People who score high on _______ are especially active on social networking sites.

narcissism