Stress and Emotion

Question 1

Darwin proposed the _________________, which suggests that opposite social messages are often signaled by opposite movements and postures.
A) Theory of natural selection
B) Principle of antithesis
C) Cannon of Darwin
D) Principle of opposites

Answer 1

B) Principle of antithesis

Question 2

The ________________________ syndrome includes the following behaviors: the consumption of almost anything that is edible, increased sexual activity often directed at inappropriate objects, a tendency to repeatedly investigate familiar objects, a tendency to investigate objects with the mouth, and a lack of fear.
A) Sham rage
B) Darwinian antithesis
C) Kluver-Bucy
D) Septal Damage

Answer 2

C) Kluver-Bucy

Question 3

According to the ____________________ theory, emotional stimuli excite both the feeling of emotion in the brain and the expression of emotion in the autonomic and somatic nervous systems.
A) Darwinian
B) Kluver-Bucy
C) Cannon-bard
D) James-Lange

Answer 3

C) Cannon-bard

Question 4

In order to use the ___________________ technique, the polygrapher must have a piece of information concerning the crime that would be known only to the guilty person.
A) Prior knowledge
B) Guilty information
C) Lie detector
D) Guilty knowledge

Answer 4

D) Guilty knowledge

Question 5

A genuine smile involves activation of the ___________________ and is known as the ______________ smile.
A) Orbicularis oculi; Duchenne
B) Zygomaticus major; Ekman
C) Orbicularis major; Duchenne
D) Orbicularis Oculi; Ekman

Answer 5

A) Orbicularis oculi; Duchenne

Question 6

The colony-intruder model of aggression and defense has yielded rich descriptions of rat intraspecific aggressive and defensive behaviors by studying the interactions between the _____________ of an established mixed-sex colony and a small ____________.
A) Alpha male; male intruder
B) Delta male; male intruder

Answer 6

A) Alpha male; male intruder

Question 7

A male high-school student slams another boy against a locker for no reason beyond showing his classmates “who’s boss.” This incident exemplifies _____ aggression.
A) Intraspecific
B) Social
C) Predatory
D) Defensive

Answer 7

B) Social

Question 8

The _______________ concept is the idea that the aggressive and defensive behaviors of an animal are often designed to attack specific sites on the body of another animal while protecting specific sites on its own.
A) Aggressive maneuver
B) Target size
C) Attack site
D) Defensive maneuver

Answer 8

B) Target size

Question 9

In some species, castration has ___________ effect on social aggression; in still others, castration ____________ social aggression during the breeding season but not at other times.
A) A small; increases
B) No; decreases
C) A large; decreases
D) No; increases

Answer 9

B) No; decreases

Question 10

Some studies have found that violent male criminals and aggressive male athletes tend to have higher testosterone levels than normal; however, this does not necessarily mean that testosterone _________ aggression.
A) Is correlated with
B) Causes
C) Inhibits

Answer 10

B) Causes

Question 11

In a standard fear-conditioning experiment, the subject is presented with __________________ and then receives exposure to a foot shock.
A) Access to food
B) A visual unconditioned stimulus
C) An auditory conditioned stimulus
D) An auditory unconditioned response

Answer 11

C) An auditory conditioned stimulus

Question 12

In rats, bilateral lesions to the __________________ block fear conditioning to a tone, but bilateral lesions to the _______________ do not.
A) Auditory cortex; amygdala
B) Amygdala; medial geniculate nucleus
C) Lateral geniculate nucleus; auditory cortex
D) Medial geniculate nucleus; auditory cortex

Answer 12

D) Medial geniculate nucleus; auditory cortex

Question 13

The process by which benign contexts come to elicit fear through their association with fear-inducing stimuli is called _________________ fear conditioning and requires intact _____________.
A) Environmental; amygdalae
B) Environmental; hippocampi
C) Contextual fear; hippocampi
D) Contextual; amygdalae

Answer 13

C) Contextual fear; hippocampi

Question 14

Evidence has been accumulating that the _________________ nucleus of the _____ is critically involved in the acquisition, storage, and expression of conditioned fear.
A) Lateral; amygdala
B) Medial geniculate; amygdala
C) Lateral geniculate; thalamus
D) Lateral; hippocampus

Answer 14

A) Lateral; amygdala

Question 15

The amygdala is thought to control defensive behavior via outputs from the _____ nucleus of the _____.
A) Lateral; amygdala
B) Lateral geniculate; thalamus
C) Medial geniculate; amygdala
D) Central; amygdala

Answer 15

D) Central; amygdala