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18 Cards in this Set
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Emotions
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A response of the whole organism involving psychological arousal, expressive behaviors, and conscious experience
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James-Lange Theory
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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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Cannon-Bard Theory
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The theory that an emotion arousing stimulus simultaneously triggers physiological responses and the subjective experience of emotion
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Two-Factor Theory
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Schachter-Singer's theory that to experience emotion one must be physically aroused and cognitively label the arousal
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Catharsis
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Emotional release. In psychology, the catharsis hypothesis maintains that releasing aggressive energy relieves aggressive urges
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Subjective Well-Being
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Self-processed happiness or satisfaction with life. Used along with measures of objective well-being to evaluate people's quality of life
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Adaption Level Phenomenon
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Our tendency to form judgments relative to a neutral level defined by our prior experience
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Relative Deprivation
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The perception that one is worse off relative to those with whom one compares ones self
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Stress
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The process by which we perceive and respond certain events called, stressors, that we appraise as threatening or challenging
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General Adaptive Syndrome
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Seyle's concept of the body's adaptive response to stress in three states--alarm, resistance and exhaustion
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Coronary Heart Disease
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The clogging of the vessels that nourish the heart muscle; the leading cause of death in many developed countries
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Type A
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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 B
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Friedman and Rosenman's term for easygoing relaxed people
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Psychophysiological Illness
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Literally, mind-body illness; any stress-related physical illness, such as hypertension and some headaches
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Psychneuroimmunology (PNI)
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The study of how psychological, neural, and endocrine processes together affect the immune system and resulting health
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Lymphocytes
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The two types of white blood cells that are part of the body's immune system: B lymphocytes form in bone marrow and release antibodies that fight bacterial infections; T lymphocytes form in the thymus and other lymphatic tissue and attack cancer cell, viruses, and foreign substances
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Aerobic Exercise
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Sustained exercise that increases heart and lung fitness; may also alleviate depression and anxiety
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Biofeedback
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A system for electronically recording, amplifying, and feeding back information regarding a subtle physiological state, such as blood pressure or muscle tension
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