Deck 8: True-False

Question 1

The hypothalamus plays an important role in the experience of emotion by appraising the stimuli.

Answer 1

False

Question 2

Cannon and Bard proposed the two-factor theory of emotion.

Answer 2

False

Question 3

The fast pathway of threat detection involves the cortex.

Answer 3

False

Question 4

The James-Lange theory of emotion suggests that emotions trigger physiological reactions.

Question 5

Adults with cortical damage have trouble experiencing emotion.

Question 6

When asked to inhibit emotion,people exhibit more cortical activity and less amygdala activity.

Question 7

The James-Lange theory of emotion suggests that,without physiological reactions,there would be no emotions at all.

Question 8

Schachter and Singer believed that different emotional experiences are the result of the brain differentially interpreting the same pattern of general physiological arousal.

Question 9

The emotion of misery is associated with high arousal and negative valence.

Question 10

Humans attempt to regulate their emotions by using both behavioral and cognitive strategies.

Question 11

It is usually not possible to change an emotional response to a stimulus.

Question 12

The Cannon-Bard theory of emotion posits that every emotion is associated with a unique pattern of physiological activity.

Question 13

Research has demonstrated that all emotional experiences are the result of different interpretations of the same physiological state.

Question 14

The multidimensional map of emotions suggests that emotional responses are either good or bad.

Question 15

The Cannon-Bard theory of emotion posits no causal relation between physiological activity and emotional experience.

Question 16

You will be more likely to report that a person is attractive if you meet him or her immediately after intense physical exercise.

Question 17

The Cannon-Bard theory of emotion suggests that physiological responses are a reaction to emotions.

Question 18

Anger produces a much larger increase in finger temperature than any other emotion.

Question 19

The fast pathway of threat detection involves the thalamus.

Question 20

In multidimensional scaling,emotions are mapped on the two dimensions of appraisal and valence.

Question 21

The main function of facial mimicry is emotion regulation.

Question 22

Reappraisal,one of the most effective strategies for emotion regulation,involves changing the way we think about an object or event.

Question 23

People rate others as more hostile if they are extending their middle finger while doing so.

Question 24

We are not very accurate at judging the emotional expressions of members of other cultures.

Question 25

Different patterns of muscle contraction in the face can result in approximately 10,000 unique facial expressions.

Question 26

Evidence suggests that the facial expressions of at least six emotions are universal.

Question 27

The cortex appears to be necessary for reappraisal to occur.

Question 28

Someone with a poker face is using the display rule of masking.

Question 29

Most people have a strong bias toward believing that others are sincere.

Question 30

Observers can often estimate someone's emotional state by considering,among other things,posture.

Question 31

The facial expression of surprise appears to be universal.

Question 32

The orbicularis oculi muscle pulls our lip corners up when we smile.

Question 33

Participants who were shown pictures of tennis players who had either just won a point or lost a point were able to tell who was experiencing a positive emotion versus a negative emotion based solely on viewing the athletes' bodies.

Question 34

Congenitally blind people,because they have never seen a human face before,have trouble making the six universal facial expressions.

Question 35

Sincere facial expressions are longer lasting than are insincere expressions.

Question 36

People tend to speak more slowly when they are telling a lie.

Question 37

There are six major muscles in the face that give rise to 43 different facial expressions.

Question 38

Sincere facial expressions are more symmetrical than are insincere expressions.

Question 39

Display rules for emotional expression are the same in all cultures.

Question 40

Reappraisals are norms for the control of emotional expression.

Question 41

Leptin is secreted by fat cells and functions as an anorexigenic signal.

Question 42

The need for belongingness and love sits atop Maslow's hierarchy of needs.

Question 43

The more basic a need is,the lower its place in Maslow's hierarchy.

Question 44

Most of us are motivated to experience pleasure and avoid pain.

Question 45

Ghrelin is an orexigenic signal.

Question 46

Capgras syndrome is caused by damage to the neural connections between the temporal lobe and the limbic system.

Question 47

The words emotion and motivation share a common linguistic root meaning "to express."

Question 48

William James believed that much of human motivation was governed by instincts.

Question 49

People who cannot experience emotion due to brain damage usually suffer severe impairments in logical reasoning.

Question 50

Ghrelin is produced in the hypothalamus.

Question 51

Polygraphs can detect lies at a rate significantly better than chance is able to because polygraphs have low error rates.

Question 52

Homeostasis refers to the tendency to seek pleasure and avoid pain.

Question 53

People with Capgras syndrome suffer from amnesia and forget the names of their family members.

Question 54

People who cannot experience emotion due to brain damage are more likely to make reckless bets.

Question 55

The most deferrable need,according to Maslow,is the need for self-actualization.

Question 56

If your body needs energy,it sends an orexigenic signal to tell the brain to switch hunger on.

Question 57

Behaviorists embraced explanations of behavior based on instincts because these explanations did not contain a cognitive element.

Question 58

Hull and Spence believed that organisms behave in ways to increase internal drive levels.

Question 59

The hedonic principle states that people will never willingly subject themselves to painful stimuli.

Question 60

Maslow's hierarchy of needs is shaped like a ladder.

Question 61

Sexual desire in human females changes dramatically over the course of the menstrual cycle.

Question 62

Research has suggested that testosterone may be the hormonal basis of the sex drive in both men and women.

Question 63

Recent research has indicated that men and women think about sex equally often.

Question 64

Leptin-resistance is associated with obesity.

Question 65

Leptin deficiency is associated with anorexia nervosa.

Question 66

The frequency with which women have orgasms during sex appears to have a large genetic component.

Question 67

The pattern of the sexual response cycle is quite similar for men and for women.

Question 68

Anorexia typically strikes young women in their early 20s.

Question 69

Our evolutionary ancestors,but not present humans,preferred green vegetables to fatty foods.

Question 70

The human body begins making DHEA,the hormone involved in the initial onset of sexual desire,when puberty begins.

Question 71

Bulimia nervosa is a disorder characterized by binge eating followed by purging.

Question 72

Severely reducing caloric intake increases metabolism.

Question 73

The third stage of physiological arousal during sexual activity is orgasm.

Question 74

We often eat out of habit even when we are not hungry.

Question 75

When the ventromedial hypothalamus is destroyed,rats will starve to death in a cage full of food.

Question 76

The hormonal basis for sexual motivation is similar for females of most mammalian species,including humans.

Question 77

Anorexics have extremely low levels of ghrelin in their blood.

Question 78

People work harder when they are extrinsically motivated.

Question 79

People who have obese romantic partners are judged negatively relative to people who have nonobese romantic partners.

Question 80

America's most pervasive eating-related problem is obesity.