202 Reaction questions, October 19, 2004

Work on these questions when you are done with your quiz. The answers are due in your discussion section THIS week (Oct. 21-22). Please write legibly and use proper spelling and grammar.

1. In what ways are the "basic emotions" basic?

2. Give an example of a situation or situations in which emotional responses are shaped by a person's thoughts and beliefs about the emotion-triggering stimuli (don't give one that was presented in class!). What are some of the consequences of having emotions that are shaped by thoughts and beliefs instead of being triggered solely by instinct?

3. Why might the members of this class be more likely to have eating disorders like anorexia and bulimia than people in a sample selected at random from the world's population?