Exam 3 Flashcards

Question

dating is a marketplace

Answer 1

People differ in their values as potential marriage partners Most people agree that Mr. or Ms. Right should be good looking, smart, kind, stable, funny, and rich. People shop for the most desirable person who will accept them This is why most marriages pair a bride and a groom of approximately equal desirability

Answer 2

An emotion that the person did not decide to have and so cannot decide not to have An emotion that was not triggered by your objective mate-value and so will not be alienated by someone with a greater mate-value Romantic Love Irrationality is an essential ingredient to the emotion of love

Answer 3

That you are in love because you can’t help it

Answer 4

Guilt would be most strongly summoned by disloyalty to a beloved person

Answer 5

Usually people don’t want a suitor who wants them too badly Shows that the suitor is desperate, so they should wait for someone better Shows that the suitor’s ardor is too easily triggered, hence too easily triggered by someone else The contradiction of courtship comes from 2 parts of romantic love Setting a minimal standard for candidates in the mate market Capriciously committing body and soul to one of them

Answer 6

costly, reliable, and hard-to-fake evidence of quality

Answer 7

if some individuals stand to benefit by revealing a favorable value of some trait, others will be forced to disclose their less favorable values

Answer 8

Capable of both spontaneous and deliberate expressions

Answer 9

Difficult to Deliberately Activate (Melina) Difficult to Inhibit or Mask (Fauci)

Answer 10

Separate UMN pathways Deliberately induced movements Cortical Motor Strip Spontaneously induced movements Extrapyramidal Motor System

Answer 11

Emotions compete with feelings stemming from calculations of rational self-interest Threats Someone who becomes enraged when dealt with unjustly will act out even when: He cannot gain back what he has lost The act of revenge will put him at risk He will seek revenge because he wants to Promises A person capable of strong guilt feelings won’t cheat even when: It is in her material interests to do so She won’t cheat because she doesn’t want to

Answer 12

Schelling (1960) The trick to coming out ahead is “voluntary but irreversible sacrifice of freedom of choice” Freedom, information, rationality are all handicaps

Answer 13

“Driver does not know combination to safe” “Register does not hold larger than $20.00 bills” A man who is worried that his daughter might be kidnapped can… give away his fortune leave town and remain incommunicado lobby for a law that makes it a crime to pay ransom break the hand he uses to sign checks

Answer 14

States that emotions are guarantors of threats and promises People consumed by pride, love, or rage have lost control. They may act against their interests These sacrifices of will and reason are effective tactics in the countless bargains, promises, and threats that make up our social relations Threats and promises can only be effective if there is good reason that they will be carried out If they are honestly signaled A hypothesis on why we express emotions on our faces. Like the doomsday machine, emotions would not be effective unless other people know that you are experiencing them. They need to be honestly communicated.

Answer 15

Selection has handcuffed each emotion to a physiological control circuit This activity is visible to observers Flushing, blushing, blanching, sweating, trembling, quavering, croaking, crying, laughing, etc.

Answer 16

people have an interest in showing everyone that an emotion is holding their body hostage and their angry words are no bluff This is an explanation for why emotions are so intimately tied to the body.

Answer 17

effective guarantors of threats and promises because they are difficult to fake

Answer 18

syndrome of emotional reactions to extremely stressful events Intrusive symptoms “Events so powerful that they threaten life or well being, severely tax or overwhelm coping capabilities, and challenge the assumptions that people make about the world and the way it works.”

Answer 19

20% to 50% of individuals exposed to human-engineered disasters get PTSD PTSD can be seen as a susceptibility to stress that overwhelms our normal defense against threats The frequency of its occurrence reflects that mismatch between our evolved defenses and modern environment Think of PTSD as a sunburn; we don’t have an adaptive response to man main disasters.

Answer 20

The cost of getting killed even once is enormously higher than the cost of responding to a hundred false alarms

Answer 21

Distinction is crucial for someone who is sick Correcting a defect is almost always a good thing Stopping the clank in the car or doing something to turn the pneumonia patient’s skin warm pink is almost always beneficial Eliminating a defense by blocking it can be catastrophic Cut the wire to the light that indicates a low fuel supply and you are more likely to run out of gas Block your cough excessively, and you may die of pneumonia

Answer 22

Kluger showed that cold-blooded lizards benefit from fever When infected, they seek out a place warm enough to raise their body temperature about two degrees Celsius If they cannot move to a warm place, they are more likely to die Body temperature is carefully regulated When the lizard is infected, it just has a higher set point Fever is an adaptation to combat infection

Answer 23

The human propensity to consume neurotoxic plants prevents or limits infection by helminths

Answer 24

Chemotherapy hypothesis Consumption of psychoactive substances should be Up-regulated by infection serving to limit infection levels Down-regulated if and when the infection is cleared

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