Chapter 10 Psychology

Which is considered an adaptive function of positive emotions?

Broaden attention

You are a high school football coach and your team has an important game tonight. As the coach, you are in charge of the pre-game meal menu. Which of the following would you choose and why?

Complex carbohydrates—Players need to maintain their energy level.

is a feeling, or affect, that can involve physiological arousal, conscious experience, and behavioral expression.

Emotion

Paige is an expert at golf and is bored by the thought of the upcoming tournament. Mary is pretty good and is somewhat excited, but not overly anxious. Sara has only recently learned to play, but has very high expectations and is really nervous about the tournament. According to optimum arousal theory, who will perform the best?

Mary will perform best.

Gary wants to lose weight by reducing his caloric intake. He eats a candy bar for breakfast instead of a bowl of cereal because the candy bar has fewer calories. Based on information presented in your textbook is Gary doing the right thing?

No, the candy bar will cause Gary to get hungry sooner than if he'd eaten the cereal.

What research evidence most strongly challenged the belief that gastric activity is the basis for hunger?

People whose stomachs have been surgically removed still experience hunger pangs.

Which of the following is evidence that signals other than those coming from the stomach are important in hunger?

People whose stomachs have been surgically removed still report hunger.

Darrin is a good piano player. If he is alone, he gets distracted and makes mistakes. At a recital with strangers, he also makes mistakes. His best performance is typically when family and friends are nearby. This is an example of the

Yerkes-Dodson law.

Which emotion is considered an avoidance-motivating emotion?

fear

A need is to a physiological state as a drive is to a(n)

psychological state.

A man receives a small dose of the peptide CCK (cholecystokinin). The results from previous studies that have utilized this procedure suggest that he will

report feeling full after eating a smaller-than-normal meal.

According to Maslow, the highest motivation for achievement of one's fullest potential as a human is

self-actualization.

The hormone cholecystokinin (CCK

signals you to stop eating.

When Cannon and Washburn measured stomach contractions with a balloon, they found that

when subjects report hunger, their stomach is contracting.