U7 Test Review

Question 1

Are men or women better at reading faces?

Answer 1

Women

Question 2

Are introverts or extroverts better at reading faces?

Answer 2

Introverts

Question 3

Are people’s weights more similar to their adoptive or biological parents?

Answer 3

Biological

Question 4

Do facial expressions mean the same thing in all cultures?

Answer 4

Yes

Question 5

Which hormone is responsible for bonding and is released when cuddling?

Answer 5

Oxytocin

Question 6

More activity in the right prefrontal cortex shows what kind of mood?

Answer 6

Depression, sadness, disgust (negative emotions)

Question 7

More activity in the left prefrontal cortex shows what kind of mood?

Answer 7

Happiness (positive emotion)

Question 8

In the experiment where scared eyes were subliminally introduced to participants, what area of their brains were activated?

Answer 8

Amygdala

Question 9

What hormones related to hunger are affected by sleep deprivation?

Answer 9

Ghrelin (hunger), leptin (full)

Question 10

In the study looking at healthy men, a relationship was found between pessimism and which health problem?

Answer 10

Coronary heart disease

Question 11

What is the difference between people with Type A and type B personality types?

Answer 11

Type Bs are more relaxed, while Type As are more aggressive

Question 12

What is the word for the study of the interaction between psychology and the immune system?

Answer 12

Psychoneuroimmunology

Question 13

What are other names for adrenaline and nor-adrenaline?

Answer 13

Epinhephrine and nor-epinephrine

Question 14

What theory describes the amount of arousal needed for various tasks and what did it say?

Answer 14

Yerkes-Dodson Theory-You need lower levels of arousal for harder things.

Question 15

How does the release of insulin affect blood glucose levels?

Answer 15

Reduces

Question 16

If you hang out with someone who eats junk food, what happens to you?

Answer 16

You also eat junk food (social influence)

Question 17

What is it called when people get overexcited over a soccer game, then riot in the parking lot?

Answer 17

Spillover effect

Question 18

What did the Cannon and Washburn balloon experiment test?

Answer 18

Stomach contractions and their effect on hunger pangs

Question 19

What is it called when somebody releases pent-up aggression?

Answer 19

Catharsis

Question 20

What is it called when somebody overeats followed by purging, vomiting, laxatives, and excessive exercise?

Answer 20

Bulimia

Question 21

What is GAS and what are the three phases?

Answer 21

General Adaptation Syndrome (alarm, resistance, exhaustion)

Question 22

Changing your facial expression to mimic another person’s helps you do what?

Answer 22

Empathize

Question 23

What are the components of emotion?

Answer 23

Bodily arousal, expressive behaviors, conscious experience

Question 24

What is the James-Lange theory?

Answer 24

Arousal comes before emotions

Question 25

What is the Cannon-Bard theory?

Answer 25

Arousal and emotion occur at the same time

Question 26

What is 2-factor (Schachter-Singer) theory?

Answer 26

First comes arousal, then the cognitive label, then emotion

Question 27

When someone tries to lose weight, what happens and why?

Answer 27

Metabolism slows down, as the body tries to stay at its' set-point

Question 28

Why do rats experience hunger even after their stomach is removed?

Answer 28

Stomach contractions are not the only thing that control hunger

Question 29

What is the lowest need on the hierarchy of needs?

Answer 29

Physical needs (food, water, shelter)

Question 30

What's wrong with the polygraph test?

Answer 30

It cannot tell which emotion the person is experiencing because the physiological responses to different emotions are very similar

Question 31

What part of the autonomic nervous system is activated during stress?

Answer 31

Sympathetic

Question 32

Why are starving people preoccupied with food?

Answer 32

Drive-reduction theory

Question 33

Why does a bear hibernate or a bird build a nest without anyone teaching them?

Answer 33

Instinct

Question 34

Why do students look at their phones during lectures?

Answer 34

Arousal theory

Question 35

Why do people want to be successful?

Answer 35

Achievement motivation

Question 36

What motivates us?

Answer 36

Incentives

Question 37

Why is narcissism on the rise?

Answer 37

Social media

Question 38

What part of the brain helps you experience hunger?

Answer 38

Hypothalamus

Question 39

What do we feel when we are excluded from a group?

Answer 39

Physical pain (ostracized)

Question 40

What is our need to be part of the group called?

Answer 40

Affiliation

Question 41

What is the highest need in Maslow's hierarchy of needs?

Answer 41

Self-actualization

Question 42

What area of psychology was Maslow a part of?

Answer 42

Humanist

Question 43

Why do people with dementia eat after having just eaten?

Answer 43

Memory affects hunger (they forget they had already eaten)