Psychology 105 Final Exam Review
Facial Feedback Hypothesis - correct answer ✔✔The process by which the facial muscles send messages
to the brain about the basic emotion being expressed
Hemisphere used to recognize facial expressions - correct answer ✔✔The right hemisphere of the brain
Emotion Work - correct answer ✔✔Expression of an emotion that the person does not really feel, often
because of a role requirement
Definition of Emotion - correct answer ✔✔a state of arousal involving facial and bodily changes, brain
activation, cognitive appraisals, subjective feelings, and tendencies towards action, all shaped by cultural
rules
People's ability to detect universal emotions; which emotion is easiest to detect? - correct answer
✔✔Anger, fear, sadness, happiness, disgust, surprise, contempt, and possibly pride - are recognized
across cultures. Accuracy of reading these facial expressions increases among people of the same
ethnicity.
Emotions and epinephrine and norepinephrine - correct answer ✔✔When you are under stress of
feeling an intense emotion, the sympathetic division of the autonomic nervous system spurs the adrenal
glands to send out epinephrine and norepinephrine. The pupils dilate, widening to allow in more light;
the heart beats faster, blood pressure increases, breathing speeds up, and blood sugar rises. These
changes provide the body with the energy needed to take action - fight or flight
Rationale behind the use of the polygraph; accuracy of polygraph - correct answer ✔✔The polygraph is
based on the assumption that a lie generates emotional arousal. A person who is guilty and fearful of
being found out will therefore have increased activity in the autonomic nervous system while responding
to incriminating questions: faster heart rate, increased respiration rate, and increased electrical
conductance of the skin.
Many psychological scientists regard results as invalid because there are no physiological patterns of
autonomic arousal are specific lying.
,Which part of the brain is associated with both positive and negative emotions? - correct answer ✔✔The
right hemisphere of the brain predominates in the experience of both positive and negative emotions,
particularly the amygdala
Know that same event can produce different emotions depending on how person interprets event. Give
an example - correct answer ✔✔third place winners happier than second place winners; one student
could be extraordinarily happy with a grade of "A-" while another student could be disheartened.
Display rules - correct answer ✔✔Social and cultural rules that regulate when, how, and where a person
may express or suppress emotions
Overriding the amygdala - correct answer ✔✔Parts of the Prefrontal Cortex are also involved in the
regulations of emotions, helping us modify and control our feelings, keeping us on an even keel and
respodning appropriately to situations. The cortex generates a more complete picture and can override
signals sent by the amygdala.
Facial muscles and "fake emotions" - correct answer ✔✔When people try to hide their feelings and put
on an emotion, they generally use different groups of facial muscles than they do for authentic
emotions.
Gender differences during disagreements and why this might relate to men's willingness to discuss
disagreements - correct answer ✔✔
The relation between thoughts and emotions - correct answer ✔✔
Gender and the ability to "read" emotional signals - correct answer ✔✔while the ability to read the
emotions of others is supposedly a female skill, a series of experiments found that working class people
of both sexes are more skilled in emphatic accuracy than upper class people are.
Cultural rules that affect the way in which men and women express emotions - correct answer ✔✔Some
cultures teach men to hide emotion and when it is shown, they consider it masculine. The opposite is
true in other cultures and it frown upon for both genders in other.
, Intrinsic and Extrinsic Motivation - correct answer ✔✔Intrinsic: the pursuit of an activity for its own sake
Extrinsic: the pursuit of an activity for external rewards, such as money or fame
Set point theory - correct answer ✔✔The genetically influence weight range for an individual; it is
maintained by biological mechanism that regulate food intake, fat reserves, and metabolism.
Thematic Apperception Test—What it is and what it is designed to measure - correct answer ✔✔a
projective psychological test. Proponents of the technique assert that subjects' responses, in the
narratives they make up about ambiguous pictures of people, reveal their underlying motives, concerns,
and the way they see the social world.
Avoidance Goals - correct answer ✔✔involve the effort to avoid unpleasant experiences, such as trying
not to make a fool of yourself at parties or trying to avoid being dependent
In the beginning phase of romantic love are obsessional thoughts about one's love interest common or
abnormal? - correct answer ✔✔The beginning stages of love are defined by obsession, sexual passion,
and hot emotion - a phase of initial attraction that fades.
Individualists vs. Collectivist cultural - correct answer ✔✔Individualist Cultures: cultures in which the self
is regarded as autonomous, and individual goals and wishes are prized above duty and relations with
others
Collectivist Cultures: cultures in which the self is regarded as embedding in relationships, and harmony
with on'e group is prized above the individual goals and wishes.
Primary and Secondary Emotions - correct answer ✔✔Primary: facial expressions are universal - you can
detect emotion in people who are not familiar to you. Not complex emotions
Secondary: complex emotions that require some cognitive thought: guilt, jealousy, embarrassment
Study that involved people's reaction to a gender-neutral face displaying different emotions - correct
answer ✔✔The study showed that when people were shown the gender-neutral face with an angry