Unsettled Questions About Emotion: teacher key

Feelings, grade 12 edition, written for 12th grade and up. An 1884 argument, tests in different cultures, brain changes from childhood to the teen years, and debates that data has not yet settled. Read what emotion science still cannot say for sure.

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Questions and answers

1. What did William James argue in 1884?
   • We feel sorry because we cry (answer)
   • We cry because we feel sorry
   • Feelings come from the heart
2. What did the Japanese and American study find about expressions in public?
   • They were the same as in private
   • They were different from those in private (answer)
   • There were none
3. What did the New Guinea study test?
   • Whether media explained the agreement on emotions (answer)
   • How fast hearts beat
   • Whether tears flush out hormones
4. In the child-to-adolescent study, where did information flow in adolescence?
   • From the frontal regions to the amygdala (answer)
   • From the amygdala to the frontal regions
   • Nowhere
5. Why have scientists not settled the debate on emotional development?
   • Studies have drawn divergent conclusions, sometimes from the same data (answer)
   • Children refuse to take part
   • Nobody studies infants
6. Which word means a feeling hidden on purpose?
   • Suppression (answer)
   • Universal
   • Appraisal

Words

• universal: the same everywhere
• appraisal: judging a situation
• suppression: hiding a feeling
• adolescence: the teen years
• involuntary: not chosen