Week 3 Quiz.

A  Judging the other person as deserving and untrustworthy

B  Believing that we can fix the problem or remove the other person’s pain

C  Seeing the feeling as a weakness and suppressing it

D  Seeing ourselves as not under threat and as capable of providing meaningful support

A  True

B  False

A  Is addictive

B  Makes generosity more rewarding

C  Makes people more selfish

D  Is more challenging for older adults

A  True

B  False

A  True

B  False

A  Conflict

B  Tribal

C  Proximal

D  Target

A  Social Salience Hypothesis

B  Personality Theory

C  Cuddle Hormone Theory

D  Greek Philosophers

A  All of the answers are correct.

B  Decreasing personal distress

C  Increasing interpersonal trust

D  Activating caregiving and nurturance motivation

A  Personal distress

B  Post-Traumatic stress symptoms

C  Oxytocin function

D  Autistic tendency score

A  Warmth during hibernation

B  Monogamous pair-bonding

C  Food sharing

D  Aggressive protection of territory

A  Upward Spiral

B  Upbeat mode

C  Inward trend

D  Proximal trait

A  True

B  False

A  is key to compassion in general, but not specific momentary experiences of compassion

B  is tied to being better at regulating unpleasant emotional states

C  does not make any difference in behavior during adolescence

D  predicts more self-consciousness during interactions with social groups

A  Respond compassionately to other’s needs

B  Seek proximity and affiliate with others

C  All of the answers are correct.

D  Communicate and cooperate with others

A  Through its primary parasympathetic influence on the heart

B  All of the answers are correct.

C  As slower heart rate during inhalation, and faster heart rate while exhaling

D  By its impact on multiple organs and systems throughout the body

A  Interpersonal/dyadic relationships

B  Individual/dispositional

C  Wider network/community level

D  None of the above. OT influences all three levels of sociability to similar degrees

E  None of the above. OT influences all three levels of sociability to similar degrees

A  Examining compassion in carriers of genetic mutations that are associated with excessive, or deficient sociability

B  All of the answers are correct.

C  Analyzing the relationship between presence/absence of specific gene variants and scores on assessments of compassion, or key mental processes that contribute to compassion (e.g. empathy)

D  Investigating the entire genome across large samples to identify which gene variants contribute to levels of compassion

A  FalseCompassion is related to a specific, identifiable genotype

B  There’s no relationship between genetic endowment and compassion

C  More evident in people who score high on measures of sociability, compassion is partly heritable depending on mode of assessment (e.g. self-report vs. behavior)

D  Compassion is greater in people who are less sociable

A  False

B  True

A  True

B  False