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21 Cards in this Set
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emotion |
U8B Mtvn & Emotion a response of the whole organism, involving 1) physiological arousal; 2) expressive behaviors; and 3) conscious experience ex: fear or excitement |
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James-Lange Theory |
U8B Mtvn & Emotion theory that our experience of emotion is our awareness of our physiological responses to emotion-arousing stimuli ex: feeling of fear follows physical manifestation (e.g. heart pounding) |
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Cannon-Bard Theory |
U8B Mtvn & Emotion theory that an emotion-arousing stimulus simultaneously triggers 1) physiological responses and 2) the subjective experience of emotion ex: feeling fear and heart pounding are simultaneous, neither causes the other |
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two-factor theory |
U8B Mtvn & Emotion the Schachter-Singer theory that to experience emotion one must be 1) physically aroused and 2) cognitively label the arousal ex: to experience emotion you need to be consciously aware of it |
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polygraph |
U8B Mtvn & Emotion a machine, commonly used to detect lies, that measures several of the physiological responses accompanying emotion (e.g. perspiration and cardiovascular breathing changes) |
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facial feedback |
U8B Mtvn & Emotion the effect of facial expressions on experienced emotions ex: facial expression of anger intensifies feelings of anger |
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catharsis |
U8B Mtvn & Emotion emotional release; hypothesis maintains that "releasing" aggressive energy (thru action or fantasy) relieves aggressive urges ex: screaming when angry to try and get the anger "out" |
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feel-good, do-good phenomenon |
U8B Mtvn & Emotion people's tendency to be helpful when already in a good mood ex: feeling good from finding $20 a guy helps a lady cross the street |
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well-being |
U8B Mtvn & Emotion self-perceived happiness or satisfaction with life; used along w measures of objective well-being (eg physical, economic indicators) to evaluate people's quality of life ex: assessed as feelings of happiness or as a sense of satisfaction w life |
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adaptation-level phenomenon |
U8B Mtvn & Emotion our tendency to form judgments (of sounds, lights, income) relative to a neutral level defined by our prior experience
ex: first time you have filet mignon it's great, the 10th time it's "meh" bc you're used to it |
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relative deprivation |
U8B Mtvn & Emotion the perception that we are worse off relative to those with whom we compare ourselves ex: even if you have a lot, feeling bad when your neighbor has more |
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behavioral medicine |
U8B Mtvn & Emotion an interdisciplinary field that integrates behavioral and medical knowledge and applies that knowledge to health and disease ex: integrating medical and behavioral knowledge |
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health psychology |
U8B Mtvn & Emotion a subfield of psychology that provides psychology's contribution to behavioral medicine ex: how attitudes and behaviors influence illness or well-being |
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stress |
U8B Mtvn & Emotion the process by which we perceive and respond to certain events, called stressors, that we appraise as threatening or challenging ex: arises from how we appraise events |
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general adaptation syndrome (GAS) |
U8B Mtvn & Emotion Selye's concept of the body's adaptive response to stress in three phases— alarm, resistance, exhaustion |
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coronary heart disease |
U8B Mtvn & Emotion the clogging of the vessels that nourish the heart muscle |
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Type A |
U8B Mtvn & Emotion Friedman and Rosenman's term for competitive, hard-driving, impatient, verbally aggressive and anger-prone people |
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Type B |
U8B Mtvn & Emotion Friedman and Rosenman's term for easygoing, relaxed people |
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psychophysiological illness |
U8B Mtvn & Emotion literally, "mind-body" illness; any stress-related illness ex: hypertension, headaches |
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psychoneuroimmunology (PNI) |
U8B Mtvn & Emotion study of how psychological, neural and endocrine processes together affect the immune system and resulting health |
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lymphocytes |
U8B Mtvn & Emotion 2 types of white blood cells in the body's immune system: B form in the bone marrow and release antibodies to fight bacterial infections; T form in the thymus and other lymphatic tissue and attack cancer cells, viruses and foreign substances |
