Week 3 Quiz.

A  Seeing the feeling as a weakness and suppressing it

B  Judging the other person as deserving and untrustworthy

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

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

A  True

B  False

A  Makes generosity more rewarding

B  Makes people more selfish

C  Is addictive

D  Is more challenging for older adults

A  False

B  True

A  False

B  True

A  Target

B  Tribal

C  Conflict

D  Proximal

A  Greek Philosophers

B  Social Salience Hypothesis

C  Personality Theory

D  Cuddle Hormone Theory

A  All of the answers are correct.

B  Increasing interpersonal trust

C  Activating caregiving and nurturance motivation

D  Decreasing personal distress

A  Personal distress

B  Autistic tendency score

C  Oxytocin function

D  Post-Traumatic stress symptoms

A  Aggressive protection of territory

B  Monogamous pair-bonding

C  Food sharing

D  Warmth during hibernation

A  Inward trend

B  Proximal trait

C  Upbeat mode

D  Upward Spiral

A  False

B  True

A  does not make any difference in behavior during adolescence

B  predicts more self-consciousness during interactions with social groups

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

D  is tied to being better at regulating unpleasant emotional states

A  Respond compassionately to other’s needs

B  All of the answers are correct.

C  Communicate and cooperate with others

D  Seek proximity and affiliate with others

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

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

C  Through its primary parasympathetic influence on the heart

D  All of the answers are correct.

A  Wider network/community level

B  Interpersonal/dyadic relationships

C  Individual/dispositional

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

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

A  Compassion is greater in people who are less sociable

B  FalseCompassion is related to a specific, identifiable genotype

C  There’s no relationship between genetic endowment and compassion

D  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)

A  False

B  True

A  False

B  True