Emotions Final

One manifestation of the Eros (instincts for life) is ________, while one manifestation of the Thanatos (instincts for death) is ________.

affiliation; gambling

When people describe their most recent emotional experience, the emotion that most often comes to mind is:

anger

To socialize children and adolescents, adults sometimes attempt to create in children and adolescents "internal compulsions" to do what the adult wants them to do and believe. This socialization strategy is called:

conditional regard.

According to the text, _________ affords people the ability to appraise situations with high discrimination and to respond with a vast array of situationally appropriate emotional reactions.

emotion knowledge

The brain structure that corresponds best to ego functions and principles is the:

frontal lobes of the neocortex

The function of ________ is to act like a moral barometer to provide immediate and salient feedback about the worth and acceptability of one's behavior.

guilt

People who are optimistic in their youth tend to be ________ in their older ages

happy

Unlike negative emotions that narrow attention to the immediate stimulus at hand, ________ has the opposite effect of broadening our attention, thoughts, and behaviors.

joy

Positive psychology investigates:

positive subjective experiences, such as creativity.

According to Lazarus, a(n) _________ appraisal, which occurs immediately following stimulus exposure, involves an estimate of whether one has anything at stake in the stimulus encounter.

primary

Sadness can slip into depression, and the key trigger that advances sadness into depression is:

rumination

Causality orientations reflect ________ in the personality.

self-determination

All cognitive emotion theorists endorse the position that

the appraisal, not the stimulus event itself, causes emotion

The following features describe what aspect of the unconscious mind?: Automatic, intuitive, fast, efficient, and first impressions.

Adaptive unconscious

_____ follow(s) secondary appraisals.

Coping responses

________ is the oldest emotion, with its original function being to prevent the oral incorporation of offensive substances

Disgust

________ is a way of receiving information and feelings such that neither is repressed, ignored, filtered, or distorted by wishes, fears, or past experiences.

Openness

What is the most important contribution that Weiner's attributional analysis makes to the study of emotion?

People can experience different emotions to the same outcome.

_________ refers to the process of forgetting information or an experience in a way that is conscious, intentional, and deliberate

Suppression

Which one of the following lists of defense mechanisms is correctly arranged from least mature (on left) to most mature (on right)?

denial, projection, rationalization, sublimation