chapter 11 emotion

1.		An emotional response consists of three components: Your Answer: behavioral, autonomic, and hormonal.
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2.		Select the incorrect statement about aggression and testosterone levels in men. Your Answer: Correlation does not prove causation. Correct Answer: Testosterone levels are genetically determined, and are not modified by environmental factors.
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3.		Which brain region may be involved in the muscular movements that produce laughter? Your Answer: right ventromedial prefrontal cortex Correct Answer: anterior cingulated cortex
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4.		Research indicates neural changes leading to a conditioned emotional response take place in the ____ and that inhibition of the conditioned response takes place in the _______. Your Answer: lateral nucleus of the amygdale; medial prefrontal cortex
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5.		Accurate identification of the facial expressions of Westerners by members of an isolated New Guinea tribe tends to confirm Darwin's hypothesis that emotional expressions Your Answer: are innate, unlearned responses.
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6.		The case of S.P., a woman with bilateral amygdale damage, suggests that the amygdala Your Answer: is not involved in the recognition of facial expression of emotion.
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7.		According to the James-Lange theory, emotional feelings Your Answer: are a product of both sensory feedback and acquired social behavior. Correct Answer: result from sensory feedback from the responses a person makes in emotion-producing situations.
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8.		Alcohol increases intermale aggression among Your Answer: all male squirrel monkeys. Correct Answer: dominant male squirrel monkeys but only during the mating season.
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9.		Antidepressant drugs that act as serotonin _______ irritability and aggressiveness. Your Answer: antagonists increase Correct Answer: agonists decrease
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10.		The James-Lange theory is difficult to verify experimentally because Your Answer: it attempts to explain private events.
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11.		In monkeys, where are the neurons involved in recognition of the direction of another monkey's gaze found? Your Answer: superior temporal sulcus
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12.		The ______ receives information from the _____ system permitting it to recognize the facial expression of ______. Your Answer: amygdale; magnocellular; fear
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13.		A person with _____ cannot make an emotional expression when asked to do so, but can express a genuine emotion. Your Answer: volitional facial paresis
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14.		What may be the function of the prefrontal cortex? Your Answer: to transmit information on emotional states and the consequences of actions to other brain regions
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15.		Cutting the vomeronasal nerve in male mice ______ intermale aggression. Your Answer: decreases Correct Answer: abolishes
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16.		Females of some primate species are more likely to engage in fights Your Answer: around the time of ovulation and just before menstruation.
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17.		Research results using the chimerical faces technique suggest that the ______ half of the ______ is _______ expressive. Your Answer: left; face; more
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18.		The results of research on patients with spinal cord injuries suggests that the intensity of their emotional states is related to the Your Answer: length of time following injury. Correct Answer: location of injury to the spinal cord.
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19.		People who have sustained damage to the ventral prefrontal cortex Your Answer: respond appropriately to hypothetical social situations, but not when these situations apply to them.
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20.		The mirror-neuron system may be involved in our ability Your Answer: to empathize with the emotions of other people.
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21.		The ______ hemisphere plays a more important role in comprehension of emotion from ______. Your Answer: right; word meaning Correct Answer: right; facial expression
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22.		In a free-ranging colony, monkeys with the lowest levels of metabolite of serotonin Your Answer: showed increased risk-taking behavior.
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23.		Subjects with ventromedial prefrontal lesions continued to draw cards from a "bad" deck because their lesions may have Your Answer: prevented emotional warnings from changing their playing strategy.
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24.		Classical conditioning occurs when a neutral stimulus is regularly ________ by a stimulus that _______ evokes a response. Your Answer: preceded; consistently Correct Answer: followed; automatically
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25.		An example of a behavioral component of an emotion would be Your Answer: a military guard who cocks his weapon and yells "halt!" as a car approaches his station.
26.		The _______ is most important for the expression of emotional responses provoked by aversive stimuli. Your Answer: central nucleus of the amygdala
27.		The _______ plays an important role in the freezing (behavioral arrest) response noted during fear. Your Answer: periaqueductal gray
28.		In experiments by LeDoux on classically conditioned emotional responses, the unconditional emotional response is elicited by Your Answer: a 800-Hz tone. Correct Answer: brief electric food shock.
29.		PET imaging studies suggest that recall of _____ is related to ______. Your Answer: emotionally charged memories; activation of the right amygdala
30.		Match up the aggressive behavior below with the stimulus or situation that elicits that type. Your Answer: threat behaviors; defending the nest
31.		Phineas Gage exhibited capricious, emotional behavior (in part) following accidental damage to his Your Answer: orbitofrontal cortex.
32.		Which of the following research outcomes support the notion that serotonin activity is related to emotion? Your Answer: People who carry at least one short allele of the serotonin transporter are less likely to develop emotional problems such as depression. Correct Answer: People who carry at least one short allele of the serotonin transporter are more likely to develop emotional problems such as anxiety disorder.
33.		In adult male rodents, castration reduces aggressiveness and injections of testosterone reinstate aggression. These effects represent a(n) Your Answer: activational effect.
34.		Aggression between female rodents is facilitated by administration of Your Answer: testosterone.
35.		Which of the following is true of the facial expression of emotion? Your Answer: Facial expressions of emotion are the same in blind children as in sighted children.
36.		PET studies indicate that the comprehension of emotion from tone of voice increased the activity of the Your Answer: left hemisphere. Correct Answer: right frontal cortex.
37.		People with volitional facial paresis are unable to Your Answer: voluntarily move their facial muscles.
38.		Which statement best illustrates the James-Lange theory of emotion? Your Answer: A fit of laughter leads to increased happiness.
39.		The results of research by Hohmann (1966) on patients with spinal cord injuries suggest that the intensity of their emotional states is related to Your Answer: the level of injury to the spinal cord.