One of the problems associated with asthma is that after patients experience difficulty breathing, they often make their symptoms worse by concentrating on them and/or worrying about them
Consequently, many doctors include relaxation exercises as part of a treatment program to prevent patients from making their asthmatic reactions worse. This example of how our awareness of physiological changes can influence or even cause subsequent emotions is most supportive of which of the following theories of emotion?
a) excitation transfer
b) Cannon-Bard
c) James-Lange
d) Yerkes-Dodson
ANS: C, James and Lange theorized that physiological changes cause the emotion.
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Research has found a neurological basis for our fear of death. In a study of men, all EXCEPT which of the following brain areas showed greater activity when they were asked questions about death and dying than when they were asked about pain from and fear of dental procedures?
a. the left dorsal hypothalamic cortex b. the right amygdala c. the left rostral anterior cingulate cortex d. the right caudate nucleus
The Ecological Momentary Assessment
a. avoids biases associated with asking people to remember their moods or symptoms. b. requires a highly trained observer to rate behavior. c. provides information about the situational determinants of behavior. d. shows great promise as an alternative to lengthy neuropsychological assessments.
Some of our noncoding DNA controls ______.
A. mutation rate B. gene expression C. RNA expression D. our "junk" DNA
Which of the following occurs as a child is able to attend to more than one aspect of a problem at one time?
A. seriation B. conservation C. transition D. encoding