Human Emotions (50:830:306)
 

Here are some sample questions from past exams.  Notes after each question, shown below with an asterisk (*) are only to help you prepare for the exam, and will NOT be given for the actual exam questions.

1. In experiences of fear, your awareness that you are feeling afraid is part of:

A.  the phenomenological component of the emotion.
B.  the expressive component of the emotion.
C.  the behavioral component of the emotion.
D.  the emotivational component of the emotion.

18. The assigned Keltner, Oatley, and Jenkins reading discussed Damasio's theory. It proposes that the ventromedial frontal cortex in the brain normally uses emotion-related responses in the body to help guide us in making decisions. These include decisions about what risks we should and should not take (e.g., in gambling tasks).  Damasio's proposal is called

A.   the somatic marker hypothesis

B.   the misattribution principle

C.   the hypothalamic-pituitary adrenal (HPA) axis effect

D.   the critique of autonomic specificity

*This question tests information from the readings that was not covered in class (see Keltner, Oatley, & Jenkins, Understanding Emotions,  chapter 5 [Bodily changes and emotion], pp. 140-141).
 

16. The sympathetic nervous system

A. is also called the parasympathetic nervous system.
B. usually has opposite effects from the parasympathetic nervous system.
C. refers to the particular set of nerve cells that produces prosocial
     emotions such as love, rather than antisocial emotions such as anger.
D. controls one set of organs in the body, while the parasympathetic nervous
     system controls a completely different set of organs.
 

*This question tests information that was covered both in the lectures (on physiology of emotion) and in the readings (Keltner, Oatley, & Jenkins, chapter 5 [Bodily changes and emotion], pp. 122-123).