Chapter 12-David Myers 9Th Edition

Front 1

Define emotion

Back 1

A response of the whole organism, involving (1) physiological arousal, (2) expressive behaviors, and (3) conscious experience.

Front 2

Define the James-Lange theory

Back 2

The theory that our experience of emotion is our awareness of our physiological responses to emotion-arousing stimuli.

Front 3

Define the Cannon-Bard theory

Back 3

The theory that an emotion-arousing stimulus simultaneously triggers (1) physiological responses and (2) the subjective experience of emotion.

Front 4

Define the two-factor theory

Back 4

The Schachter-Singer theory that to experience emotion one must (1) be physically aroused and (2) cognitively label the arousal.

Front 5

Define a polygraph

Back 5

A machine, commonly used in attempts to detect lies, that measures several of the physiological responses accompanying emotion (such as perspiration and cardiovascular and breathing changes).

Front 6

Define catharsis

Back 6

Emotional release. In psychology, the catharsis hypothesis maintains that "releasing" aggressive energy (through action or fantasy) relieves aggressive urges.

Front 7

Define the feel-good, do-good phenomenon

Back 7

People's tendency to be helpful when already in a good mood.

Front 8

Define subjective well-being

Back 8

Self-perceived happiness or satisfaction with life. Used along with measures of objective well-being (for example, physical and economic indicators) to evaluate people's quality of life.

Front 9

Define the adaption-level phenomenon

Back 9

Our tendency to form judgments (of sounds, of lights, of income) relative to a neutral level defined by our prior experience.

Front 10

Define relative deprivation

Back 10

The perception that one is worse off relative to those with whom compares oneself.

Front 11

Define behavioral medicine

Back 11

An interdisciplinary field that integrates behavioral and medical knowledge and applies that knowledge to health and disease.

Front 12

Define health psychology

Back 12

A sub-field of psychology that provides psychology's contribution to behavioral medicine.

Front 13

Define stess

Back 13

The process by which we perceive and respond to certain events, called stressors, that we appraise threatening or challenging.

Front 14

Define general adaptation syndrome (GAS)

Back 14

Selye's concept of the body's adaptive response to stress in three states-alarm, resistance, exhaustion.

Front 15

Define coronary heart disease

Back 15

The clogging of the vessels that nourish the heart muscle; the leading cause of death in many developed countries.

Front 16

Define Type A

Back 16

Friedman and Rosenman's term for competitive, hard-driving, impatient, verbally agressive, and anger-prone people.

Front 17

Define Type B

Back 17

Friedman and Resenman's term for easygoing, relaxed people.

Front 18

Define psychophysiological illness

Back 18

Literally, "mind-body" illness; any stress-related physical illness, such as hypertension and some headaches.

Front 19

Define psychoneuroimmunology (PNI)

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The study of how psychological, neural, and endocrine processes together affect the immune system and resulting health.

Front 20

Define lymphocytes

Back 20

The two types of white blood cells that are part of the body's immune system: B lymphocytes form in the bone marrow and release antibodies that fight bacterial infections; T lymphocytes form in the thymus and other lymphatic tissue and attack cancer cells, viruses, and foreign substances.

Front 21

Define coping

Back 21

Alleviating stress using emotional, cognitive, or behavioral methods.

Front 22

Define problem-focused coping

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Attempting to alleviate stress directly-changing the stressor or the way we interact with that stressor.

Front 23

Define emotion-focused coping

Back 23

Attempting to alleviate stress by avoiding or ignoring a stressor and attending to emotional needs related to one's stress reaction.

Front 24

Define aerobic exercise

Back 24

Sustained exercise that increases heart and lung fitness; may also alleviate depression and anxiety.

Front 25

Define biofeeback

Back 25

A system for electronically recording, amplifying, and feeding back information regarding a subtle physiological state, such as blood pressure or muscle tension.

Front 26

Define complementary and alternative medicine (CAM)

Back 26

As yet unproven health care treatments intended to supplement (complement) or serve as alternatives to conventional medicine, and widely taught in medical schools, used in hospitals, or reimbursed by insurance, companies. When research shows a therapy to be safe and effective, it usually then becomes part of accepted medical practice.