Intro to Psychology Chapter 9 (Psychology in Every Day Life)

Richard Lazarus

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

homeostasis

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

lonely

________ people tend to spend more time social networking

glucose

_________ is the major resource of energy. it is also known as "blood sugar"

facial feedback effect

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

amygdala

identify an emotion-control center of the brain

self-actualization

in Maslow's hierarchy of needs, _________ comes after Esteem needs

angry

in a crowd of faces, researchers have found that people are quickest to detect an _________ face

relatively low arousal is best

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

guilty knowledge test

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

James-Lange theory

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

women are far more likely than men to describe themselves as empathetic, surpass men in determining whether a male-female couple is genuinely romantic or not, surpass men at reading emotional cues

women appear to be more sensitive to nonverbal cues than men. What research supports this?

belongingness and love needs

Maia has plenty of food and lives in a nice house. now, she feels 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?

carbs can help increase levels of serotonin, which can have calming effects

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

stress appraisal

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:

disgust

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

similar; 2/3

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

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

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?

54

according to the text, in looking at 206 studies of discerning truth from lies, people were _________ percent accurate

narcissism

people who score high on ___________ are especially active on social networking sites

pounding heart, increased pace, sense of fear

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

hypothalamus

orexin is an appetite hormone secreted by the:

drive-reduction theory

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

decreases; increases

the secretion of PYY __________ hunger and the secretion of orexin _________ hunger

arousal; calming

the sympathetic nervous system is to _______ as the parasympathetic nervous system is to _________