mising PSY 228 Questions

Multiple Choice Questions (Enter your answers on the enclosed answer sheet)

1. Which of the following jobs is most likely to have an extensive set of feeling rules?

a. a cashier at McDonalds

b. a stay-at-home mother

c. a plumber

d. a farmer

2. Zurcher's concept of emotional scripts most closely resembles what other concept reviewed in th is chapter?

a. emotion rules

b. emotional energy

c. feeling rules

d. senti ment

3. Milan was a little perturbed when his boss refused to accept some flowers he had brought as a sign of his sadness over the loss of her sister. Which sympathy rule did his boss break?

a. Do not make false claims of sympathy.

b. Do not claim too much sympathy.

c. Claim some sympathy.

d. Reciprocate to other for their gift of sympathy.

4. Based on Lofland's analysis of the role of culture in the expression of grief in society, which of the following places would have the hardest time coping with the loss of a child?

a. modern day America

b. modern day Europe

c. modern day Ethiopia

d. both a and b

5. Swidler's research on love in American culture revealed what?

a. Americans find it hard to fall in love.

b. Americans initiate relationships based on a mythical view of emotional bonding between lovers.

c. Americans use a more realistic view of love to sustain relationships on a day-to-day basis.

d. both band c

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