Comm Ch. 8

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In the expression of emotion, androgynous people:
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Selected Answer: are more emotionally expressive than highly masculine people
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Which of the following statements about communication technology is true?
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Selected Answer: Online support communities are a viable option for helping people deal with a trying situation.
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How are emotions and moods different? .
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Selected Answer: Emotions have an identifiable cause whereas moods do not
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People who score highly on this personality trait are more likely than others to experience anger, guilt, anxiety, and depression:
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Selected Answer: neuroticism
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Denying and suppressing felt emotions can contribute to a number of health problems.
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Selected Answer: False
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Remorse is a secondary emotion composed of disgust and fear.
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False
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According to your text, women are more likely than men to experience:
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Selected Answer: emotional jealousy
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A multi-dimensional response to any event that enhances or inhibits your goals is know as a(n):
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Selected Answer: emotion
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Social practices and messages influence both the emotions we feel and the ways in which we react to emotions.
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Selected Answer: True
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Which of the following statements about road rage is not true?
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Selected Answer: Men engage in road rage more than women.
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In every measurable way, women are more emotional than men.
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Selected Answer: False
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The action tendency for this emotion is to hide or disappear from others:
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Selected Answer: shame
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Women are more likely than men to respond to jealousy by trying to make their partners jealous.
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Selected Answer: True
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Emotions generally last longer than moods.
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Selected Answer: False
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Your text described five stages in the grieving process. Which of the following was not among them?
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Selected Answer: retribution
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All of the following statements about the amygdala are true except for the following.
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The amygdala is a small cluster of neurons in the brain In response to fear, the amygdala causes our heart and breathing rates to increase
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Which of the following statements about cultural displays of emotion is not true?
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After contact with Western cultures, pre-literate cultures tend to adopt Western display rules.
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This process involves changing the way you think about the situation that gave rise to a negative emotion:
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Selected Answer: emotional reappraisal
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Social anxiety is a rare and serious psychological disorder.
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Selected Answer: False
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People who can accurately identify which emotion they're feeling are best equipped to manage their emotions in productive ways.
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Selected Answer: True
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__________ is the emotion we experience when we feel we have been wronged in some way.
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Selected Answer: Anger
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Which of the following emotions has a neutral valence?
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Selected Answer: surprise
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People raised in collectivistic cultures typically express more negative emotion to outsiders than do people raised in individualistic cultures.
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True
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Soldiers decline treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder primarily because:
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Selected Answer: they feel fear that their comrades will stigmatize them
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Which of the following emotions is derived from the product of your overall evaluation of another person?
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Selected Answer: liking
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The emotional contagion effect applies only to positive emotions, such as happiness.
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Selected Answer: False
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During a normal, calm conversation with your friend, you begin to notice that you feel very uncomfortable. Your stomach is in knots, your palms are sweaty, and your legs feel a little weak. You start to wonder what is going on and then remember that, before talking to your friend, you were nervous because you have a test in an hour. This is an example of the fact that:
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emotions are cognitive
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Which of the following is an example of a primary emotion?
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anger
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Using "you" statements to describe your emotions is problematic because:
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Selected Answer: it fails to acknowledge the part you play in determining your feelings
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Whereas sadness is an emotion, depression is a physical illness.
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Selected Answer: True