Where Scientists Disagree and Test: teacher key

Feelings, grade 11 edition, written for 11th grade. Do faces show the same feelings everywhere? Read how scientists argue over faces, basic emotions and crying, and what tests show about children, labeling feelings and slow breathing.

Read the book. Print this page for the key.

Questions and answers

1. What did Ekman and Keltner say about facial expressions?
   • They are universal (answer)
   • They are learned from television
   • They only exist in one country
2. Why did Ekman study a New Guinea community?
   • To test whether media explained cultural agreement (answer)
   • To measure heart rates
   • To count basic emotions
3. How many core emotions do most emotion scientists agree there are, at least?
   • Two
   • Five (answer)
   • Fifty
4. What did the UCLA researcher compare labeling feelings to?
   • Braking at a yellow light (answer)
   • Filling a cup
   • Running a race
5. Why have studies of crying not been conclusive?
   • Genuine grief and crying are hard to cause and measure in a laboratory (answer)
   • Nobody ever cries
   • Tears cannot be seen
6. In this book, what does involuntary mean?
   • Not chosen (answer)
   • Very loud
   • Done again

Words

• universal: the same everywhere
• replicated: done again
• basic: core
• hypothesize: propose an idea
• involuntary: not chosen