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Cognitive-Affective Bases Flashcards

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  1. The Cannon-Bard theory was proposed primarily to challenge which aspect of the James-Lange theory?

    Answer: The claim that visceral changes are too slow and non-specific to cause distinct emotions

    Cannon argued that visceral changes are too slow, diffuse, and similar across emotions to be the source of distinct emotional feelings.

  2. A client repeatedly seeks reassurance that she is not seriously ill despite negative medical tests. This behavior is best explained by which cognitive construct?

    Answer: Intolerance of uncertainty

    Intolerance of uncertainty drives repeated reassurance-seeking because ambiguous outcomes are experienced as threatening regardless of probability.

  3. The Stroop task is commonly used to measure:

    Answer: Selective attention and cognitive interference

    The Stroop task assesses the ability to selectively attend to one feature (ink color) while inhibiting a more automatic response (reading the word).

  4. Which construct refers to the belief that one's emotions are inappropriate, wrong, or shameful?

    Answer: Secondary emotions

    Secondary emotions are emotional reactions to one's primary emotions—such as feeling ashamed of being anxious—and are central to Linehan's DBT model.

  5. The 'availability heuristic' can influence clinical judgment by causing clinicians to:

    Answer: Underweight base rates in favor of vivid recent cases

    The availability heuristic leads people to estimate the probability of events based on how easily examples come to mind, which can be distorted by recency or vividness.

  6. Embodied cognition research suggests that cognitive processes are:

    Answer: Grounded in bodily states and perceptual simulations

    Embodied cognition holds that mental representations are grounded in and shaped by sensorimotor experiences rather than being abstract and amodal.

  7. Which of the following is an example of an implicit attitude measure?

    Answer: Implicit Association Test (IAT)

    The IAT measures automatic associations between concepts and attributes by assessing reaction times, bypassing deliberate introspective reporting.