A. Thalamus
B. Hypothalamus
C. Hippocampus
D. Amygdala
Related Mcqs:
- The fact that facial expressions of emotion tend to intensify the experience of emotion serves to support the: ___________?
A. Adaptation-level principle
B. Relative-deprivation principle
C. Cannon-Bard theory
D. James-Lange theory - According to the James-Lange theory, it is the______that tells the conscious brain it is experiencing emotion.
A. Hypothalamus
B. Visual sensation of the emotional stimulus
C. Amygdala
D. The physiological feedback from the body - According to the James-Lange theory of emotion:
A. The experience of emotion depends on autonomic arousal and on one’s cognitive interpretation of that arousal.
B. Different patterns of autonomic activation lead to the experience of different emotions.
C. Emotion occurs when the thalamus sends signals simulitaneously to the cortex and to the autonomic nervous system.
D. Emotions develop because of their adaptive value. - The Cannon-Bard theory of emotion is a _________ theory.
A. Peripheralist
B. Modern
C. Centralist
D. Contemporary - The fact that eating behavior, sexual desire, and the experience of emotion all depend on interactions between biological and environmental determinants lends evidence lands evidence to which of this text’s organizing themes?
A. Psychology’s theoretical diversity
B. Psychology’s empiricism
C. People’s experience of the world is subjective
D. The joint influence of heredity and experience - As a member of the diplomatic corps, Alex was given special training in the customs, language, and religions of the Third World country where he would be living. However, Alex probably needed little training to correctly interpret his hosts’ expressions of emotion as revealed by their:
A. Facial expressions
B. Tones of voice
C. Verbal experiences
D. Body postures - According to the Cannon-Bard theory of emotion:
A. There is a different pattern of physiological activity for each emotion
B. The autonomic nervous system has no role to play in emotion
C. Cognitive appraisal of the emotional situation has to take place before activation of the sympathetic nervous system can occur
D. The autonomic nervous system responds in exactly the same way to all type of emotion - Paul Ekman,the leading researcher on the nature of facial expressions, believes that all of the following are universal expressions of emotion EXCEPT
A. Hopefulness
B. Surprise
C. Happiness
D. Contempt - According to Schachter’s two-factor theory of emotion
A. Emotion occurs when the thalamus sends signals stimultaneously to the cortex and to the autonomic nervous system
B. Emotions develop because of their adaptive value
C. Different patterns of autonomic activation lead to the experience of different emotions
D. The experience of emotion depends on autonomic arousal and your cognitive interpretation of that arousal - The poly graph or “lie detector” primarily measures which component of emotion?
A. Attribution
B. Emotional expression
C. Physiologiacl arousal
D. Vocal modulation
