When considering the emotion of anger; which of these questions would be of most interest to a functionalist?
a) What is the purpose of anger?
b) What is the conscious experience of anger like?
c) What are the behaviors of an angry person?
d) What happens in the brain during fits of anger?
Answer: a
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A. acceptance B. depression C. denial D. bargaining
People who have experienced traumatic events
a. derive more satisfaction from helping strangers than from helping close others. b. show mental and physical health benefits from helping others. c. more carefully weigh the potential costs of helping. d. are paradoxically less likely to help others if they themselves were helped.
Increased activity of the frontal and temporal lobes of the right hemisphere is associated with the ____
a. behavioral inhibition system b. behavioral activation system c. behavioral attenuation system d. behavioral attraction system
The term plasticity describes the
a. ability of damaged neurons to regrow and reacquire their previous function. b. capacity of neurons in a damaged region of the brain to take on new functions. c. flexibility characteristic of neurons as they grow around other structures. d. compact and seemingly tangled appearance of the brain.