Psychology Chapters 11,12, 13

Front 1

Emotion

Back 1

physiological activation, expressive behaviors, conscious experience, feelings

Front 2

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

Cannon-Bard theory

Back 3

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

Front 4

two-factor theory

Back 4

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

Front 5

embodied emotion

Back 5

Emotions involve bodily responses. Brain Activated. During an emotional experience, our autonomic nervous system mobilizes energy in the body that arouses us.

Front 6

Arousal and Performance

Back 6

physical responses, like finger temperature and movement of facial muscles. Change, during fear, range and joy

Front 7

Amygdala

Back 7

shows differences in activation during the emotions of anger and fear.

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spillover effect

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an arousal response to one event spills over into our response to the next event.

Front 9

conginition does not always precede emotion

Back 9

emotions are felt directly through he amygdala or through the cortex

Front 10

izard

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10 emotions

Front 11

Causes of Anger

Back 11

Commit Wrongdoing

Front 12

Stress

Back 12

the process by which we perceive and respond to certain events, called stressors, that we appraise as threatener or challenging.

Front 13

Fight or Flight

Back 13

fight it out, or run away from it.

Front 14

Stress Concept

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At times it is a stimulus and at other times it is a response. It is a process by which we appraise and cope with environmental threats and challenges.

Front 15

Coronary Heart Disease

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

Front 16

Type A

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

Front 17

Type B

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Freidman and Rosenman;s tern for easygoing, relaxed epople.

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Cannon Fight or Flight response

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BY outgoing epinephrine, norepinephrine from the inner adrenal glands, increasing heart and respiration rates, mobilizing sugar and fat, and dulling pain.

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Pessimistic

Back 19

Pessimistic men are twice as likely to develop heart disease.

Front 20

Psycho physiological illness

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

Front 21

psychoneuroimmunology

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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 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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aerobic exersice

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sustained exersice 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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personality

Back 25

an individuals characteristic pattern of thinking feeling and acting

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psychological disorder

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deviant, distressful and dysfunctional behavior patterns

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medical model

Back 27

the concept that diseases in this case psychological disorders, have physical causes that can be diagnosed, treated and in most cases cured often through treatment in a hospital.