4 Written Questions

1. people's tendency to be helpful when already in a good mood.
2. the perception that one is worse off relative to those with whom one compares oneself
3. our tendency to form judgments (of sounds, of lights, of income) relative to a neutral level defined by our prior experience.
4. self-perceived happiness or satisfaction with life. Used along with measures of objective well-being (for example, physical and economic indicators) to evaluate people's quality of life.

3 Multiple Choice Questions

1. a response of the whole organism, involving (1) physiological arousal, (2) expressive behaviors, and (3) conscious experience.
   1. two-factor theory
   2. catharsis
   3. emotion
   4. polygraph
2. the theory that our experience of emotion is our awareness of our physiological responses to emotion-arousing stimuli.
   1. Cannon-Bard theory
   2. James-Lange theory
   3. emotion
   4. two-factor theory
3. Schachter-Singer's theory that to experience emotion one must (1) be physically aroused and (2) cognitively label the arousal.
   1. James-Lange theory
   2. two-factor theory
   3. Cannon-Bard theory
   4. polygraph

3 True/False Question

1. catharsis → emotional release. In psychology, the catharsis hypothesis maintains that "releasing" aggressive energy (through action or fantasy) relieves aggressive urges.
   

   True        False

2. Cannon-Bard theory → the theory that our experience of emotion is our awareness of our physiological responses to emotion-arousing stimuli.
   

   True        False

3. polygraph → emotional release. In psychology, the catharsis hypothesis maintains that "releasing" aggressive energy (through action or fantasy) relieves aggressive urges.
   

   True        False