Question 1

Emotional content and emotional style

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A)  do not correlate at all.
B)  correlate at low levels.
C)  correlate at high levels.
D)  correlate at moderate levels.

Question 2

Which type of pride may contribute to aggression and hostility?

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A)  learned
B)  authentic
C)  self-aggrandizing
D)  hubristic

Question 3

Jess Tracy, a Canadian researcher, has provided evidence for which additional discrete emotion?

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A)  pride
B)  shame
C)  surprise
D)  contempt

Question 4

Canadian research suggests that cross-cultural research on happiness may be limited by

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A)  differences in the ways that cultures define happiness.
B)  cultural differences in the number of synonyms for happiness.
C)  differences in the ways that cultures experience positive emotions.
D)  differences in the extent to which cultures place importance on positive emotions.

Question 5

Pride was identified as one of the most distinct and evident human emotions by whom?

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A)  Abraham Maslow
B)  Sigmund Freud
C)  Hans Eysenck
D)  Charles Darwin

Question 6

People who score high on affect intensity

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A)  experience only negative emotions more strongly than people who score low.
B)  experience more physiological arousal than people who score low.
C)  Both "experience only negative emotions more strongly than people who score low" and "experience more physiological arousal than people who score low."
D)  experience less physiological arousal than people who score low.

Question 7

Pictures designed to create an emotional reaction would be used

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A)  in the emotional Stroop task.
B)  to assess Type A personality.
C)  in a mood induction.
D)  All of the choices are correct.

Question 8

Tracy and her colleagues accumulated a great deal of support for the inclusion of pride as a basic emotion, including

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A)  open-ended response research in which previously identified photos of pride were consistently labelled as pride.
B)  survey-based response research in which pride was shown to be correlated with other theoretically related emotions, such as happiness.
C)  forced-choice response research in which participants successfully identified pride among photographs of multiple emotions.
D)  both "forced-choice response research in which participants successfully identified pride among photographs of multiple emotions" and "open-ended response research in which previously identified photos of pride were consistently labelled as pride."

Question 9

Which of the following is NOT likely to increase happiness?

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A)  Wishing for happiness
B)  Helping others
C)  Exercise
D)  Spending time with friends

Question 10

Studies of happiness and age have found that

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A)  relationships and success at work are more important to young people.
B)  levels of happiness are not predicted well by age.
C)  financial security is more important to older people.
D)  All of the choices are correct.

Question 11

Questionnaire measures of happiness

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A)  correlate with measures of social desirability.
B)  are invalid due to response bias.
C)  appear to be valid.
D)  correlate with measures of social desirability and appear to be valid.

Question 12

Researchers agree that

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A)  it is better to be high on affect intensity most of the time.
B)  we cannot say whether it is bad or good to be low or high on affect intensity.
C)  it is better to be low on affect intensity.
D)  it is better to be high on affect intensity.

Question 13

Which of the following is NOT a part of Beck's cognitive triad?

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A)  Information about the self
B)  Information about one's past
C)  Information about the world
D)  Information about one's future

Question 14

Studies have shown that the control of emotion is associated with an increased activation of the

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A)  hypothalamus.
B)  anterior cingulate.
C)  hippocampus.
D)  prefrontal cortex.

Question 15

Analyses of data from the 2003 Statistics Canada General Social Survey revealed that

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A)  happiness was positively correlated with income level.
B)  there appeared to be a third variable underlying the link between happiness and income.
C)  happiness was unrelated to income level.
D)  happiness was negatively correlated with income level.

Question 16

A benefit of low affect intensity is

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A)  experiencing less intense positive emotions.
B)  lower levels of concern about psychosomatic symptoms.
C)  experiencing more intense positive emotions.
D)  fewer psychosomatic symptoms.

Question 17

It is estimated that depression strikes percent of the people in the United States at some point in their lives.

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A)  30
B)  20
C)  10
D)  5

Question 18

A person who experiences very high "highs" and very low "lows" scores high on the trait of

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A)  neuroticism.
B)  hostility.
C)  extraversion.
D)  affect intensity.

Question 19

People high in neuroticism are often threat-related words.
To name colours of anxiety- and

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A)  slower
B)  eager
C)  faster
D)  unwilling

Question 20

Which of the following is a potential "third variable" that might explain the correlation between wealth and happiness across countries?

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A)  Education
B)  Civil rights
C)  Health care
D)  All of the choices are correct.

Exam 13: Emotion and Personality

It is estimated that depression strikes percent of the people in the United States at some point in their lives.

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Which of the following is a potential "third variable" that might explain the correlation between wealth and happiness across countries?

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A benefit of low affect intensity is

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People high in neuroticism are often threat-related words. To name colours of anxiety- and

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Which of the following is NOT likely to increase happiness?

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Questionnaire measures of happiness

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A person who experiences very high "highs" and very low "lows" scores high on the trait of

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Jess Tracy, a Canadian researcher, has provided evidence for which additional discrete emotion?

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Emotional content and emotional style

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People who score high on affect intensity

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Tracy and her colleagues accumulated a great deal of support for the inclusion of pride as a basic emotion, including

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Studies have shown that the control of emotion is associated with an increased activation of the

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Analyses of data from the 2003 Statistics Canada General Social Survey revealed that

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Pictures designed to create an emotional reaction would be used

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Which of the following is NOT a part of Beck's cognitive triad?

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Pride was identified as one of the most distinct and evident human emotions by whom?

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Which type of pride may contribute to aggression and hostility?

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Canadian research suggests that cross-cultural research on happiness may be limited by

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Studies of happiness and age have found that

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