Chapter 11: Emotions and Motivations
True or False?
Remember – don’t just answer True or False, note down what you know about the topic.
Questions
- In terms of our response to stress, the HPA axis refers to the hippocampus, the pituitary gland and the adrenal glands.
- The term cognitive appraisal refers to our tendency to judge other people depending on their intelligence.
- Social support can have both direct effects and appreciation effects.
- The first stage of the sexual response cycle is orgasm.
- The pancreas secretes insulin.
- Stress is more likely to lead to the tend-and-befriend response in men than in women.
- Proxemics are a form of nonverbal communication to do with personal space.
- The James-Lange theory of emotion argues that arousal precedes our emotional experience.
- Bulimia nervosa is an eating disorder characterized by binge eating followed by purging.
- Selye’s general adaptation syndrome referred to five distinct phases of physiological change that occur in response to long term stress.
Answers
- false
- false
- true
- false
- true
- false
- true
- true
- true
- false