Chapter 3 – Multiple Choice Questions

Question 1

What is an emotion? An emotion is

a functional reaction of various responses to a meaningful stimulus change.

a subjective feeling of a person’s reaction to the environment.

a physiological reaction, like heart rate, to something that has happened to the person.

always a negative reaction to stimuli in order to motivate behaviour.

Question 2

What does the response coherence postulate refer to? The postulate refers to

a person expressing her emotion appropriately in a given situation.

the channels of emotion correlating together during an emotional reaction.

the correct emotion being elicited by the emotion-inducing event.

a person being able to comprehend the meaning of his emotional feelings.

Question 3

How are self-conscious emotions signalled to other people? They are shown by

blushing or a downward gaze.

grinding one’s teeth.

shuffling one’s feet.

changes in overall muscle tension of the body.

Question 4

What does the law of change describe? According to the law of change,

variations in emotion are necessary in order for a person to be psychologically healthy.

a stimulus can repeatedly elicit the same emotion provided there is no stimulus habituation.

stronger emotion stimuli produce stronger emotional reactions.

people adjust to the stimuli that produce emotions.

Question 5

The honeymoon effect is an example of what theory or concept? It is an example of

the law of emotional momentum and stimulus habituation

accentuation/sensitisation of an emotion prototype

the law of the number of emotions

Cannon-Barb’s theory of emotion and appraisal theory

Question 6

What is the correct sequence of events according to the James-Lange theory of emotion?

emotion stimulus ►affective experience ► physiological response pattern

affective experience ► emotion stimulus ► physiological response pattern

emotion stimulus ► facial expression ► physiological response pattern

emotion stimulus ► physiological response pattern ► affective experience

Question 7

Physiological arousal increases an individual’s attention toward the source of the arousal according to which theory?

channel coherence theory

cognitive arousal theory

Cannon’s theory

James-Lange theory

Question 8

Descartes linked emotions to motivation. How?

An emotion prepares the mind and body to achieve the intent of an emotion

Emotions agitated a person into unfocused action.

An emotion notifies the mind that some unspecified action must be taken.

An emotion floods the mind with affective experiences.

Question 9

Evidence shows that when a person is shown an array of pictures of spiders and kittens, they will look at which first?

either the kitten or the spider equally

neither but some other neutral picture

kitten

spider

Question 10

Newer emotion recognition experiments show that people from different countries or cultures are not 100% accurate at recognising facial expressions of emotion. This lack of 100% accuracy is because

some facial expressions of emotion are not expressed in certain countries or cultures; people show blank faces.

facial expressions of emotion are influenced by display rules, which differs by country or culture.

facial expressions differ greatly among countries to the same extent that languages differ, e.g., Chinese vs English.

people are simply unable to interpret or lack the skill to interpret facial expressions of emotion.