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22 Cards in this Set
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A response of the whole organism involving:
Physiological arousal Expressive behaviors and Consciously experienced thoughts and feelings |
Emotion
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The theory that our experience of emotion is our awareness of our physiological responses to emotion-arousing stimuli
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James-Lange theory
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The theory that an emotion-arousing stimulus simultaneously triggers:
Physiological responses and The subjective experience of emotion |
Cannon-Bard theory
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The Schachter-Singer theory that to experience emotion on must:
Be physically aroused and Cognitively label the arousal |
Two-factor theory
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Lie detector
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Polygraph
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Emotional release
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Catharsis
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People's tendency to be helpful when already in a good mood
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Feel-good, do-good phenomenon
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Self-perceived happiness or satisfaction with life
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Subjective well-being
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Our tendency to form judgments (of sounds, of lights, of income) relative to a neutral level defined by our prior experience
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Adaptation-level phenomenon
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The perception that we are worse off relative to those with whom we compare ourselves
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Relative deprivation
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The process by which we perceive and respond to certain events that we appraise as threatening or challenging
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Stress
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Selye's concept of the body's adaptive response to stress in three phases--alarm, resistance, and exhaustion
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General Adaptation Syndrome (GAS)
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The clogging of the vessels that nourish the heart muscle; the leading cause of death in North America
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Coronary heart disease
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Friedman and Rosenman's term for competitive, hard-driving, impatient, verbally aggressive, and anger-prone people
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Type-A
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Friedman and Rosenman's term for easygoing, relaxed people
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Type-B
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Literally "mind-body" illness; any stress-related physical illness, such as hypertension and some headaches
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Psychophysiological illness
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The two types of white blood cells that are part of the body's immune system
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Lymphocytes
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 |
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Health care that includes relaxation, acupuncture, massage therapy, homeopathy, spiritual healing, herbal remedies, chiropractic and aromatherapy
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Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM)
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Alleviating stress using emotional, cognitive, or behavioral methods
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Coping
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Attempting to alleviate stress directly, by changing the stressor or the way we interact with that stressor
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Problem-focused coping
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Attempting to alleviate stress by avoiding or ignoring a stressor and attending to emotional needs related to one's stress reaction
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Emotion-focused coping
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Sustained exercise that increases heart and lung fitness; may also reduce stress, depression, and anxiety
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Aerobic exercise
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