Summarize the research concerning the gender effects involving emotions. What is an explanation for these differences?
What will be an ideal response?
* Women have more intense and more frequent expressions of positive and negative emotions, except anger.
* Women report more comfort with emotions and a greater tendency to seek out emotional experiences.
* One possible explanation is that women are expected to be nurturing and are often the primary caregivers in the family and workplace, which emphasizes emotional responsiveness, whereas men's roles do not.
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Nonsmokers who breathe ________________ smoke are at considerably higher risk for smoking-related diseases; each year, about 49,000 individuals die from exposure to it
Fill in the blank(s) with correct word
Wundt's term voluntarism reflects his emphasis on the ____
a. ?elements of consciousness b. ?individual's choice to apply his/her knowledge base to a situation c. ?idea that a stimulus in the environment can force us to pay attention d. ?power of the will to organize the contents of the mind e. ?ability of the individual to “make the nonconscious conscious”
Research by Gentile et al. (2009) on media effects and helping behavior found that
a. people assigned their partner the easiest puzzles after playing a prosodies video game. b. people assigned their partner the easiest puzzles after playing a violent video game. c. people were more likely to answer more questions on a questionnaire after playing a prosodies video game. d. people were more likely to answer fewer questions on a questionnaire after playing a violent video game.
Precision and empirical evaluation are elements of which defining theme of behavior therapy?
a. Scientific b. Present Focus c. Active d. Learning