Chapter 13 - Emotion and Personality

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Across
  1. 2. Emotional _____ are transitory and depend more on the situation or circumstances a person is in than on the specific person. These have a specific cause, and that cause is typically outside of the person (something happens in the environment).
  2. 8. According to Beck, there are three important areas of life that are most influenced by the depressive cognitive schema: information about the self, about the world, and about the future (two words; no space between).
  3. 10. Located deep toward the center of the brain, this structure most likely evolved early in the evolution of the nervous system. In experiments utilizing fMRI to trace increased activation of parts of the brain, this region seems to be an area of the brain associated with affect, including social rejection (two words; no space between).
  4. 12. Researchers who suggest emotions are best thought of as a small number of primary and distinct emotions (anger, joy, anxiety, sadness) are said to take this approach.
  5. 14. The part of the brain responsible for emotion and the “flight-fight” reaction (two words; no space between).
Down
  1. 1. Frequent fluctuations in a person’s emotional life over time (two words; no space between).
  2. 3. Increases in the probabilities of certain behaviors that accompany emotions (two words; no space between).
  3. 4. The _____ of emotional life describes how emotions are experienced.
  4. 5. The notion that causality can move in two directions; for example, helping others can lead to happiness, and happiness can lead one to be more helpful to others (two words; no space between).
  5. 6. Researchers who gather data by having subjects rate themselves on a wide variety of emotions, then apply statistical techniques (mostly factor analysis) to identify the basic components underlying the ratings are said to take this approach.
  6. 7. These can be defined by their three components: (1) distinct subjective feelings or affects associated with them; (2) accompanied by bodily changes, mostly in the nervous system, and these produce associated changes in breathing, heart rate, muscle tension, blood chemistry, and facial and bodily expressions; (3) accompanied by distinct action tendencies or increases in the probabilities of certain behaviors.
  7. 9. Emotional _____ are stable and are primarily characterized by specific emotions. For example, neuroticism is primarily characterized by the emotions of anxiety and worry.
  8. 11. A tendency to respond to everyday frustrations with anger and aggression, to become irritable easily, to feel frequent resentment, and to act in a rude, critical, antagonistic, and uncooperative manner in everyday interactions.
  9. 13. The _____ of emotional life refers to the characteristic or typical emotions a person is likely to experience over time.