AP Psych Emotion

Theory of emotion that suggests physical arousal and emotional experience arise simultaneously.

• Yerkes-Dodson
• James-Lange
• Cannon-Bard
• Two-Factor

Involves communication through body language, movements, and gestures.

• facial feedback hypthesis

• Paralanguage

• Nonverbal communication

• display rules

______________ are culturally specific prescriptions that tell us which emotions to display, to whom, and when. Such rules account for some cross-cultural differences in the expression of emotion.

• display rules

• facial feedback hypotheis

• paralanguage

• nonverbal communication

________________ proposed a theory that described emotion as beginning with undifferentiated arousal. The specific emotional label we use to describe the arousal depends on our interpretation of the context.

• James-Lange Theory

• Cannon-Bard Theory

• Schacter and Singer Two Factor Theory

• Tim Adams' Harvard Study

_____________ theories of emotion propose that how we make judgements about events leads to emotional reactions.

• Cognitive

• Language

• Emotional Intelligence

• Appraisal

There is strong evidence for universal recognition of a least 6 basic emotions: anger, disgust, fear, happyness, sadness and ___________.

• hatred

• envy

• surprise

• shame

. The part of the brain that seems to influence emotion is the ________________.

• thalamus

• pons

• amygdala

• thyroid gland

Which sequence of events in emotional responses is characteristic of the James-Lange theory of emotion?

• stimulus --> emotion --> physiological changes

• stimulus --> physiological changes --> emotion

• physiological changes --> stimulus --> emotion

• stimulus --> emotion AND physiological changes (simultaneous)

Which statement reflects the core idea of the facial feedback hypothesis?

• Men do not express emotion via the face.

• Facial features have no connection with emotion.

• Information from facial muscles intensifies emotional experiences.

• When one facial expression occurs, we quickly register its opposite on the face.

The feeling that we are worse off than others, even when our lives are pretty good, is called ____________.

• relative deprivation

• self-actualization

• cognitive dissonance

• the availability heuristic