Walter has just watched the news of Hurricane Irene, including an interview with a man who is standing in knee-deep water in his basement. Walter decides to go to the store and on his way sees a stranded motorist
The empathy-altruism model predicts that Walter will ________. a) keep driving because on a bad day like today, he can't begin to deal with one more problem
b) keep driving because the motorist is a member of his ingroup
c) stop and try to help because he might as well wallow in his negative feelings
d) stop and try to help because he remembers how it feels to be stranded on the side of the road
d
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You are walking down a deserted alley late at night; and you hear a sudden noise to your left. Your sympathetic nervous system prepares your body for fight or flight, and you experience fear. Just before you turn to run, however, you see a cat race away from the trash can he was digging in. "Oh, that was the noise," you think. Instead of experiencing fear, you laugh wildly at what you had imagined was coming after you in the alley. This set of events is best described by which theory of emotion?
a. the common sense theory b. the James-Lange theory c. Schachter's cognitive theory d. the Cannon-Bard theory