Practice Test  - Motivation

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1. An emotion is a feeling made up of:

 - anger, fear, sadness, or happiness
 - having a subjective feeling & objectively learned behavioral responses
 - appraising a stimulus, having a subjective feeling, physiological 
   responses, & overt behavior
 - facial expressions which convey social signals , social needs & 
   physiologicalresponses

2. Theories of emotions tend to fit into two categories. What are the names 
of the categories?

 peripheral theories and central theories
 central theories and social learning theories
 peripheral theories and cognitive appraisal theories
 behavioral theories and cognitive appraisal theories

3. Peripheral is to _______ as cognitive appraisal is to ______.

 brain; emotion
 learning; innate
 side; interpretation
 physiological; interpretation

4. The sequence of components for emotion according to the 
James-Lange peripheral theory is:

 - physiological changes, interpretation of changes, emotional feeling,
   overt behavior
 - facial muscles change, interpretation of changes, overt behavior,
   emotional feeling
 -  emotional feeling, physiological changes, interpretation of changes,
    overt behavior
 - physiological changes, overt behavior, interpret cues, emotional feeling

5. The peripheral facial feedback theory emphasizes the ______ 
component of emotion.

 active
 cognitive
 behavioral
 physiological

6. According to the research on peripheral theories, physiological changes may
 _____ the intensity of emotional experiences; but, they don't cause emotion.

 mask
 increase
 decrease
 stabilize

7. The sequence of components for emotion according to the cognitive- appraisal 
theory of emotion is:

 stimulus, interpret, bodily response, emotional feeling
 stimulus, interpret, emotional feeling, bodily response
 stimulus, emotional feeling, interpret, bodily response
 stimulus, emotional feeling, bodily response, interpret

8. According to the affective neuroscience approach, which of the following is not 
among the four unique qualities of emotions?

 Emotions may not respond to reasoning.
 Some emotions are hard wired in the brain.
 Emotions are expressed in stereotypic ways.
 Emotions are not influenced by one’s culture.
 Emotions have enormous influence on many cognitive processes.

9. Of the following, which lists the correct order of an infant’s development 
of facial expressions?

 fear, happiness, angry, disgust
 disgust, happiness, angry, fear
 happiness, fear, angry, disgust
 angry, fear, disgust, happiness

10. Which of these statements is not correct in regard to universal 
facial expression?

 infants around 5 to 7 months show fear
 anger is a biologically determined universal emotion
 infants develop facial expressions in an unpredictable sequence
 happiness is expressed the same way in Western & primitive cultures

11. The relationship between emotional arousal and performance 
on a task is explained by the:

 Schacter-Singer law
 James-Lange theory
 Yerkes-Dodson law
 Darwinian law of survival

12. According to the adaptation level theory, money cannot buy 
happiness because:

 we are greedy
 we adapt to continuous satisfaction
 we find it difficult to put a price tag on happiness
 most of us cannot afford to buy those things that create true happiness

13. The new concept of emotional intelligence includes all of the following except:

 perceiving emotions accurately
 managing emotions in oneself and others
 taking feelings into account when reasoning
 excluding emotions when making crucial decisions

14. _________ accompanies all emotion.

 cognitive arousal
 behavioral arousal
 physiological arousal
 none of these!

15. Which part of the brain is the emotional detector & emotional memorizer?

 thalamus
 amygdala
 visual cortex
 hippocampus

16. The research indicates that while the James-Lange theory seems incorrect, physiological changes may:

 cause emotions
 cause positive emotions
 increase the intensity of emotions
 decrease the intensity of emotions

17. Charles Darwin was the originator of the explanation of emotion currently known as:

 cognitive theory
 behavioral theory
 James-Lange theory
 facial feedback theory

18. Schachter & Singer’s theory emphasizes the _______ component of emotion.

 active
 cognitive
 behavioral
 physiological

19. The primary cause of emotions according to the cognitive appraisal theory is:

 how we interpret a situation
 our degree of physiological arousal
 the extent of change in facial muscles & skin
 how the brain interprets physiological changes

20. When noticing an unemotional stimulus, what is the pathway of neural activity?

 eyes, thalamus, amygdala
 eyes, visual cortex, thalamus
 eyes, amygdala, visual cortex
 eyes, thalamus, visual cortex, thalamus

21. “Look over there. It’s a snake,” your friend yells as the two of you are hiking. 
What is the pathway of neural activity?

 eyes, thalamus, amygdala
 eyes, visual cortex, thalamus
 eyes, amygdala, visual cortex
 eyes, thalamus, visual cortex, thalamus

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Topics in Psychology
Robert C. Gates