Question 1

Are emotions an essential element of evolution?

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Question 2

Summarize Weiner's attributional theory of emotion. Start with an outcome and conclude your answer by explaining how a person experiences specific emotions such as pride and anger.

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Question 3

What conclusions can be offered from the empirical evidence obtained from tests of the strong and weak versions of the facial feedback hypothesis?

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Question 4

Explain how the social sharing of emotion can generated an enhanced (i.e., more positive, closer) relationship between two people-the one who shares and the one who listens.

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Question 5

Consider either the strong or weak version of the facial feedback hypothesis. Describe the typical research study testing that version of the facial feedback hypothesis as well as the pattern of results typically found in such a study.

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Question 6

Consider anger. Explain the origins of the anger emotion first according to Lazarus's appraisal-based theory of emotion and then according to Weiner's attribution-based theory of emotion.

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Question 7

Discuss the experimental methodology of the studies designed to test the proposition that human beings display similar facial expressions of emotion regardless of differences in cultural background (i.e., cross-cultural studies of emotion facial expressions).

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Question 8

Summarize the James-Lange theory of emotion.
Identify (name/list) the criticisms of or arguments against the James-Lange theory.

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Question 9

Using the concept of emotional contagion, explain how the emotions of one person can generate that same emotional experience in another person such that the second person "catches" the emotion expressed by the first person.

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Question 10

Outline Lazarus's appraisal theory of emotion. In doing so, use each of the following four terms in your

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Question 11

Explain the role attributions play in the emotions of pride, gratitude, hope, anger, pity, guilt, and shame.

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Question 12

Explain the phrase, "Brain activity (e.g., environmental stimulation of the amygdala)
activates individual emotions."

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Question 13

What is emotion knowledge? How do individuals develop emotion knowledge? How does ever more sophisticated emotion knowledge benefit the person?

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Question 14

What is the social sharing of emotion? What happens during the social sharing of emotion? Why does this experience "pay off" for the person who is sharing the emotion?

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Question 15

State the facial feedback hypothesis in both its strong and weak versions.

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Question 16

Define and differentiate between Lazarus's two constructs of primary appraisal and secondary appraisal.

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Question 17

Lazarus's theory of emotion is a cognitive-motivational-relational theory.
Explain what each of these three terms (cognitive, motivational, relational) means.

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Question 18

Explain emotion activation as a function of changes in the rate of neural firing in the cortex. What pattern of neural firing activates each of the following six emotions-anger, distress, fear, interest, joy, and surprise?

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Quiz 13: Aspects of Emotion