Quiz 04
Course Instructor: Zunaira Shahzad total marks: 10
Name: ----------------------------------------------- Enrollment #----------------------------------
1) Which of the following is a generic term that covers a broad range of feelings that people experience?
A) affect
B) emotions
C) moods
D) emotional labor
E) cognition
4) What term is used for feelings that tend to be less intense than emotions?
A) affect
B) cognition
C) moods
D) thoughts
E) reactions
7) When the team he supports wins the World Cup, Detleb feels a surge of joy, which turns into
a feeling of satisfaction that lasts for days. What is one of the reasons that the feeling of
satisfaction might be categorized as a mood and not an emotion?
A) It is a very strong feeling.
B) It is brought about by a specific event.
C) It has a lengthy duration.
D) It is a positive feeling.
E) It is expressed on his face.
10) Which of the following is not one of the six universal emotions, as agreed upon by most
contemporary researchers?
A) anger
B) fear
C) hate
D) sadness
E) happiness
13) People think about ________ five times longer than they think about ________ .
A) negative events, positive events
B) positive events, negative events
C) behavior affects, the consequences
D) their moods, their emotions
E) positive events, positive emotions
16) Which of the following is a mood dimension consisting of nervousness, stress, and anxiety at
one end and relaxation, tranquility, and poise at the other?
A) positive regard
B) static regard
C) negative affect
D) emotional range
E) positive affect
19) A researcher finds that people who work in a fish processing plant, doing work that most
people find extremely unpleasant, still have a positive mood about 60 percent of the time. Such a
finding could most likely be explained by which of the following?
A) the altered enhancement effect
B) self-elation
C) the fundamental attribution error
D) self-serving bias
E) positivity offset
22) People giving different responses to identical emotion-provoking stimuli is a result of
________.
A) intensity
B) consensus
C) consistency
D) pervasiveness
E) personality
25) On which of the following days do people tend to be in their best moods?
A) Monday
B) Tuesday
C) Wednesday
D) Friday
E) Sunday
28) Gerardo believes that every time he picks up a penny he is blessed with good fortune, since
the last time he picked up a penny he had a lottery win, and the time before that he got a big
bonus at work. Gerardo's perception is likely a product of a(n) ________.
A) affect intensity
B) high-positive affect
C) emotional dimensions
D) self-serving bias
E) illusory correlation
Quiz 04
Course Instructor: Zunaira Shahzad total marks: 10
Name: ----------------------------------------------- Enrollment #----------------------------------
2) Which of the following statements is true?
A) Affect is a type of emotion.
B) Affect is a type of mood.
C) Affect can be experienced as a mood or an emotion.
D) Affect is the result of conscious thought and action.
E) Affect is the result of a mood or an emotion.
5) Julia works as a receptionist at a real estate company. Her boss just came in the door and
yelled at her, telling her that the front office was a mess and that she needed to get up and clean it
immediately. After her boss left the room Julia grabbed three magazines and violently slammed
them into the trash can. Which of the following best describes Julia's action?
A) an affect
B) a thought
C) a mood
D) an emotion
E) a mental process
8) When Ariana's mom tells her that her dog has been killed by a car, her eyes widen in disbelief
and tears begin to stream down her face. Later that day she is able to laugh and talk about the fun
times she had with her dog. What is one of the reasons that Ariana's reaction can be categorized
as an emotion?
A) It is a general, unambiguous feeling.
B) It is accompanied by facial expressions.
C) It has a lengthy duration.
D) It is a positive feeling.
E) Her reaction is cognitive in nature.
11) Which of the following is not an example of a low-positive affect of mood?
A) sad
B) depressed
C) bored
D) fatigued
E) nervous
14) What is one way that emotions can be classified?
A) simple and complex
B) positive and complex
C) complex and negative
D) simple and negative
E) positive and negative
17) ________ is an emotion that falls into the category of high positive affect.
A) Serene
B) Elated
C) Tense
D) Thoughtful
E) Fatigued
20) When Phineas Gage had an iron bar driven through his brain he ________.
A) died immediately
B) became uncontrollably violent
C) became much less intelligent
D) lost the ability to encode new memories
E) lost the ability to experience emotions
23) Which of the following is the term used for the strength with which individuals experience
emotion?
A) emotionality
B) affect intensity
C) crank response
D) adaptability
E) reflexivity
26) Research suggests which of the following relationships exists between weather and mood?
A) a moderately positive
B) a moderately negative
C) a strong positive
D) a strong negative
E) weather tends to have little effect on mood
29) What effect does stress typically have on mood?
A) short-term positive
B) long-term positive
C) short term positive but long term negative
D) negative
E) small and insignificant
Quiz 04
Course Instructor: Zunaira Shahzad total marks: 10
Name: ----------------------------------------------- Enrollment #----------------------------------
3) What term is used for intense feelings that are directed at someone or something?
A) affect
B) cognition
C) moods
D) thoughts.
E) emotions
6) Erin works on a software help desk. After being yelled at by a customer about the state of her
company's software, she becomes angry, and has to take a short break to calm down. What
makes her anger an emotion, rather than a mood?
A) It is a simple, unambiguous feeling.
B) It interferes with her capacity to work effectively.
C) It has a contextual stimulus.
D) It can be controlled given some time.
E) It cannot be controlled when it is elicited
9) Which of the following statements is generally accepted by experts?
A) Moods cause emotions.
B) Emotions cause moods.
C) Moods and emotions are both caused by introspection.
D) Moods and emotions are the same phenomena.
E) Moods and emotions can mutually influence one another.
12) A ________ means that when nothing is going on, people are generally in a good mood.
A) low-positive affect
B) positivity offset
C) high-positive affect
D) negativity offset
E) high-negative affect
15) Which of the following is a mood dimension consisting of positive emotions?
A) positive regard
B) static regard
C) negative affect
D) emotional range
E) positive affect
18) What is positivity offset?
A) having misperceptions of one's environment
B) experiencing self-elation
C) experiencing the fundamental attribution error
D) exhibiting a self-serving bias when there is negative input
E) experiencing a mildly positive mood at zero input
21) What does the case of Phineas Gage serve to illustrate?
A) effective management
B) why women are ineffective managers
C) intelligent design
D) the effectiveness of the mood structure
E) the importance of emotions on reasoning
24) Ben is very prone to experiencing emotions in a much stronger manner than most other
people. Things that wouldn't provoke any significant emotional response in the average person
often send him into fits of happiness, anger, or depression. Ben has a high level of which of the
following?
A) introversion
B) negative affect
C) extroversion
D) positive affect
E) affect intensity
27) Jo has a job interview. Which of the following will probably not have an effect on the way
she reacts emotionally to the interview?
A) how much sleep Jo had the night before
B) how much exercise Jo regularly gets
C) Jo's age
D) Jo's gender
E) the weather on the day of the interview
30) Valerie is in a negative mood, so she decides to watch a rental movie at home with her
friends to improve her mood. What effect will this activity likely have on her negative mood?
A) strongly decrease it
B) moderately decrease it
C) little or no effect on it
D) moderately increase it
E) strongly increase it
