Emotion Functions
Rapid body preparation with minimal conscious thought describes:
A) Social norms enforcement
B) Relationship signaling
C) Intrapersonal processing
Intrapersonal processing
Frequent positive emotions generally predict:
A) Enhanced life satisfaction
B) Reduced stress resilience
C) No longevity benefits
A) Enhanced life satisfaction
Negative emotions contribute to well-being by:
A) Meaning-making in loss
B) Purely motivational avoidance
C) Social conformity pressure
A) Meaning-making in loss
Fluctuation measures:
A) Temporal emotional variability
B) Multimodal response alignment
C) Peak emotional intensity
A) Temporal emotional variability
Party happiness exemplifies:
A) Contextual appropriateness
B) Intensity miscalibration
C) Trait expression
A) Contextual appropriateness
Facial expressions communicating relationship quality belong to:
A) Interpersonal functions
B) Individual physiological prep
C) Cultural norm maintenance
A) Interpersonal functions
Positive emotion's longevity effect compares to:
A) Not smoking
B) Moderate exercise
C) Mediterranean diet
A) Not smoking
Disgust's primary adaptive function:
A) Toxin avoidance
B) Status signaling
C) Group cohesion
A) Toxin avoidance
High fluctuation correlates with:
A) Psychopathology risk
B) Optimal functioning
C) Trait emotionality
A) Psychopathology risk
Funeral laughter represents:
A) Contextual mismatch
B) Healthy emotional range
C) Authenticity marker
A) Contextual mismatch
Social referencing and guilt enforcing cultural rules represents:
A) Personal motivation
B) Social-cultural functions
C) Dyadic communication
B) Social-cultural functions
Positive emotion intensity follows what trajectory with well-being?
A) Linear increase
B) Inverted U-curve
C) Threshold effect
B) Inverted U-curve
Minimal negative emotions risk:
A) Social functioning deficits
B) Enhanced decision-making
C) Greater emotional clarity
A) Social functioning deficits
Emotional stability predicts:
A) Superior mental health
B) Reduced behavioral flexibility
C) Heightened vigilance
A) Superior mental health
Social referencing describes:
A) Caregiver emotion guidance
B) Peer influence effects
C) Self-regulatory strategy
A) Caregiver emotion guidance
Fear→dry mouth, blood to legs, visual field expansion is primarily:
A) Intrapersonal (fight/flight prep)
B) Interpersonal signaling
C) Cultural norm enforcement
A) Intrapersonal (fight/flight prep)
Excessive positive emotion intensity risks:
A) Mania and risk-taking
B) Emotional exhaustion only
C) Social withdrawal
A) Mania and risk-taking
Blunted affect characterizes:
A) Major depressive disorder
B) High emotional intelligence
C) Adaptive coping
A) Major depressive disorder
Daily ratings 9→2→8→1→9 demonstrate:
A) Excessive variability
B) Trait-consistent responding
C) Optimal range restriction
A) Excessive variability
Emotion coherence requires alignment of:
A) Feeling, expression, physiology
B) Context and motivation
C) Trait and state
A) Feeling, expression, physiology
Anti-littering PSA using shame primarily leverages:
A) Personal disgust avoidance
B) Interpersonal conflict
C) Social-cultural functions
C) Social-cultural functions
Research nuance on positive emotions:
A) Context-dependent benefits
B) Universally optimal
C) Primarily short-term effects
A) Context-dependent benefits
Negative emotions' role per research:
A) Situationally functional
B) Primarily maladaptive
C) Equivalent to positive emotions
A) Situationally functional
Psychological flexibility involves:
A) Balanced variability
B) Emotional suppression
C) Rigid stability
A) Balanced variability
Emotion-well-being mediators:
A) Intensity, variability, context
B) Frequency, duration, valence
C) Trait, state, attribution
A) Intensity, variability, context