Psych Practice Quiz 9

_____ is a hormone secreted by the pancreas to control blood glucose.

Insulin

Which strategy is NOT a way to balance online activity and real-world connections?

Make sure that you keep in touch online with all your close friends.

If shown an angry face in a frightening situation, how will most people judge the face?

Scared

To experience an emotion, a person must be physically aroused and cognitively label that arousal. This theory of emotion was suggested by:

Stanley Schachter and Jerome Singer.

Compared with the general population, how much time do lonely people spend online?

They spend a greater-than-average amount of time online.

Who suggested that very similar physiological reactions are associated with a variety of different emotions?

Walter Cannon

Outward signs of emotion tend to _____ in different cultures.

be the same

Activation of the sympathetic nervous system _____ salivation and _____blood pressure.

decreases; increases

Regardless of culture, _____ music feels happy and _____ music seems sad.

fast-paced; slower

By motivating a person to satisfy physical needs, hunger and thirst serve to:

maintain homeostasis.

According to the drive-reduction theory, we are pushed by our _____ and pulled by our _____.

needs; incentives

When given _____, rats become ravenously hungry.

orexin

A lie detector is used to monitor a person's:

respiration.

A person who is prone to depression has increased activity in his:

right frontal lobe.

All of Ernest's basic physiological and safety needs have been met, and he feels a solid sense of belonging and of being loved. According to Abraham Maslow, this suggests that he will next seek to satisfy his need for:

self-esteem.

Social networking _____ our connections to people we already know.

strengthens

A group of protesters went on a hunger strike and drastically lowered their caloric intake. It is likely that, in response to this semistarvation:

their basal metabolic rate dropped and they lost weight.

Brian looks down while sitting at the top of the Ferris wheel. He immediately feels his heart start to pound. He is confused by this response until he remembers his last experience on a Ferris wheel. During that experience, the wind started to blow, the seats began to rock, and he thought he was going to die. Brian realizes his heart is pounding because he is afraid. Which theory BEST explains this sequence of events?

two factory theory