Week 5: Emotion

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Exploring Emotions: A Quiz

Test your understanding of emotions with our intriguing quiz designed for psychology enthusiasts and learners alike. This quiz delves into key theories and concepts of emotions, including basic emotions, physiological responses, and decision-making.

Understand foundational emotional theories.
Explore the interplay of emotions and rationality.
Challenge common misconceptions about emotions.

15 Questions4 MinutesCreated by DancingMind453

In the Schachter-Singer experiment (1962) that Dr. Davidson mentioned, which of the following were hypotheses that the experimenters held to be true? (select all that are true.)

This experiment demonstrated how emotions help guide effective decision making.

There is no physiological distinction among the emotions.

Physical arousal is related to emotional response.

The Affective Circumplex is an accurate predictor of how a person responds to adrenaline pills.

What are some basic functions of emotions? Choose all that apply.

Emotions play an important role in social connection.

Emotions motivate behavior.

Emotions are involved in salience, I.e., noticing what is important to us.

Emotions provide universal, invariant physiological responses to situations.

According to Basic Emotions Theory, there are at least some basic emotions shared across all cultures that manifest in specific physiological states, including facial expressions. Which of these are critiques of that theory? Check all that apply.

Basic emotions are impossible because human physiology is too variable.

There are no specific brain signatures that correspond to specific emotions.

A specific emotions such as fear can result in radically different behaviors.

The findings do not replicate.

According to Dr. Davidson's lecture in class on emotion...

there is no significant scientific research on emotions.

our current scientific research has answered all our questions about emotions.

there are many questions about emotions that our current scientific research cannot answer.

current scientific research is confusing because there are no answers to anything about emotion.

The James-Lange Theory of Emotion suggests that:

Emotion is the awareness of the physical response that arises due to a stimulus.

Emotions enable rational decision making.

The valence of arousal determines the emotion.

This is a trick question - there is no such thing as the James-Lange Theory of Emotion.

Dr. Davidson mentioned the "Canonical Six" emotions. They are:

Happiness, Sadness, Anger, Fear, Disgust, Surprise

Happiness, Sadness, Fear, Anticipation, Disgust, Surprise

Hope, Sadness, Anger, Fear, Disgust, Surprise

Happiness, Sadness, Disappointment, Fear, Disgust, Surprise

If we could somehow eliminate all emotions and just be purely rational beings, then current research suggests that

we would be able to think much more clearly

Life would be much better.

our capacity to reason effectively would be seriously impaired

we would be much more efficient at all activities

In his lecture for class, Dr. Davidson mentioned the "somatic marker" theory developed by Antonio Damasio and his colleagues. According to this theory, the awareness of bodily sensations, and the association of those sensations with particular emotions is:

irrelevant to behavior.

a problem that needs to be eliminated in order to think clearly.

entirely contradicted by the James-Lange hypothesis.

often a key element in decision-making.

Which of these are key features of Judgement Theories about emotions? Check all that apply.

Internal and external circumstances are relevant to the way we conceptualize emotions.

The same affective state (for example, a state of high arousal with pleasant valence) can be interpreted as many different emotions.

Emotions are universal and basic.

Emotions result from a conceptual judgment about an affective state.

In general, Western attitudes to "emotion" can be based in a contradiction. Choose the two answers that represent the two sides of this contradiction.

Emotions motivate us to act.

Emotions are inherently expressive.

Without emotions, we would be like cyborgs -- biological machines that are not truly human.

Emotions are part of our "lower" aspects that make us more like animals and less like humans.

When you are "hangry," it means that

You have misinterpreted a state of hunger as a state of anger.

This is a trick question Scott, there is not such thing.

You are neither hungry nor angry.

You are angry, but not hungry.

Emotions are:

An animalistic part of our psyche that we need to suppress

Probably not entirely universal, but also not entirely determined just by culture.

Completely determined by culture without any universal elements

Universally and culturally invariable

When we are "hijacked" by our emotions, then we can experience a "refractory period." At that time,

We very easily process information that contradicts the emotion.

We experience the refraction of light.

It is much more difficult to process information that contradicts the emotion,

Nothing at all happens.

"Emotional Granularity" refers to

The capacity to give a much more precise account of your affective state and the various emotions that might correspond to it.

The granular surface of the amygdala as a key feature of emotions.

The way that emotions eventually splinter into affective grains.

The way that we should ignore the finer features of emotions.

This question concerns the Affective Circumplex. Based upon the type of theory presented in lecture as the preferred approach in this class, which of these statements is true? Check all that apply.

An emotion such as "fear" is not a plausible interpretation of some regions in the circumplex (e.g., low arousal and pleasant).

Your affective state has nothing to do with your emotions.

Any region within the circumplex can correspond to any emotion whatsover

You can have multiple interpretations of the "emotion" that corresponds to an affective state.

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