PSYC 102 - EMOTION AND MOTIVATION EXAM
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS WITH COMPLETE
SOLUTIONS GRADED A++
According to the James-Lange theory of emotion, emotional experiences are
triggered by:
a. expectancies
b. conditioned stimuli
c. physiological activity
d. high valence events
c. physiological activity
The correlation between a person's ability to detect lies and the person's
confidence in that ability is:
a. moderately positive
b. strongly positive
c. strongly negative
d. essentially zero
d. essentially zero
, People unable to experience emotion have problems:
a. describing the weather
b. making decisions
c. engaging in logical reasoning
d. unscrambling words
b. making decisions
What do these six emotions have in common: happiness, sadness, surprise, fear,
anger, and disgust?
a. They are universally reflected in facial expressions
b. They all have a positive valence
c. They are expressed very differently in Eastern and Western cultures
d. They are learned within the first three years of life
a. They are universally reflected in facial expressions
Hunger is signalled by ____________, which is is secreted by the _____________
and flows through the blood-brain barrier into the hypothalamus.
a. Leptin; stomach
b. Leptin; fat cells
c. Ghrelin; fat cells
d. Ghrelin; stomach
d. Ghrelin; stomach
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS WITH COMPLETE
SOLUTIONS GRADED A++
According to the James-Lange theory of emotion, emotional experiences are
triggered by:
a. expectancies
b. conditioned stimuli
c. physiological activity
d. high valence events
c. physiological activity
The correlation between a person's ability to detect lies and the person's
confidence in that ability is:
a. moderately positive
b. strongly positive
c. strongly negative
d. essentially zero
d. essentially zero
, People unable to experience emotion have problems:
a. describing the weather
b. making decisions
c. engaging in logical reasoning
d. unscrambling words
b. making decisions
What do these six emotions have in common: happiness, sadness, surprise, fear,
anger, and disgust?
a. They are universally reflected in facial expressions
b. They all have a positive valence
c. They are expressed very differently in Eastern and Western cultures
d. They are learned within the first three years of life
a. They are universally reflected in facial expressions
Hunger is signalled by ____________, which is is secreted by the _____________
and flows through the blood-brain barrier into the hypothalamus.
a. Leptin; stomach
b. Leptin; fat cells
c. Ghrelin; fat cells
d. Ghrelin; stomach
d. Ghrelin; stomach
