Chapter 6 - emotion and affect

Who is most likely to be happy in old age?

. A person who has some health problems but is usually a happy person

Guilt is the subject of philosophical and religious discourses, as well as jokes, and can serve a number of important interpersonal functions. Which statement about guilt is accurate?

A small amount of guilt can increase enjoyment of activities such as eating a candy bar.

What does research on anger management conclude?

Both venting and exercising increase arousal and can therefore increase one's anger.

Colette and Mauro lost their home and everything in it in a flash flood. Because they did not have flood insurance, they are basically starting over from scratch. Based on what is known about affective regulation strategies, you would expect that _____.

Colette, as a woman, would be more likely to ruminate about the problems

Some stereotypes about how men and women cope with emotions are true, while others are myths. Which statement about affect regulation is the most accurate?

Men are more likely than women to rely on humor to cope

In the context of emotional intelligence, which best describes elements of the "dark tetrad" of personality?

Narcissism, psychopathy, and Machiavellianism

A few research projects used data generated by Facebook users. Which statement accurately depicts findings from these experiments?

Positive updates are more effective in increasing positive updates than negative updates are in increasing negative updates.

How might you best respond to someone who claims that women are far more emotional than men and therefore not suited for jobs in which they have to make critical decisions?

Research using objective measures has found that men are actually slightly more emotional than women, at least in Western society.

Loriana is a nervous person and she gets especially anxious before taking tests. In fact, she has been so anxious recently that her grades are suffering. Based on the Yerkes-Dodson law, what might be her best alternative?

Since there is an inverted-U shaped relationship between arousal and performance, she should try to reduce her anxiety somewhat, but not eliminate it.

What advice would a psychologist give a recently married happy couple who is thinking of having children?

Wait a while after getting married to have children; that will allow the relationship to better withstand the stress of parenthood.

Nia is waiting to board the train when her traveling companion has a seizure. Nia quickly moves to ensure her friend's safety and her companion soon recovers. Afterward, when her companion is talking about the incident, Nia has no idea who called 911 nor does she recall anything about the emergency responders. Is this normal?

Yes, because arousal tends to focus attention and Nia's attention was focused on her companion.

Which song lyrics have the best, most accurate idea about happiness?

You've got to accentuate the positive, eliminate the negative, latch on to the affirmative.

Aurora knows her grandmother is very ill and likely to die soon, so when she gets a call in the middle of the night and sees it is from her mother, she is immediately overcome with dread. Aurora is experiencing a negative _____.

affect

A person concluding that she is a happy person because she has had more positive experiences than negative ones is best considered an example of _____.

affect balance

A person's ability to predict his/her emotional reactions to future events is known as _____.

affective forecasting

Jeanelle has just had plenty of caffeine and sugar when she heads to class. Suppose someone bumps into Jeanelle and she gets uncharacteristically angry. What could best account for her uncharacteristic anger?

excitation transfer

The part of emotional intelligence that focuses on a person's ability to generate an emotion and then reason with that emotion is called _____.

facilitating thought

A person wakes up happy. He cannot think of anything that makes today special or different, he is just happy. In this context, happiness is best described as a(n) _____.

mood

Which theory proposed the idea that emotion has two different components: physiological arousal and a cognitive label?

schachter-singer

Thaddeus, who is five, begins sobbing when he is told he cannot have an ice cream cone. A stranger offers her opinion that "someone" needs to learn how to control his emotions. Is the stranger correct that emotions are subject to conscious processing?

yes, emotions involve the deliberate part of the duplex mind and are subject to conscious processes