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29 Cards in this Set
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Emotion
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a response of the whole organism involving 1)psychological arousal 2)expressive behaviors 3)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 psychology 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 1)psychological responses 2)the subjective experience of motion
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Two-Factor Theory
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the Schachter-Singer theory that to experience emotion one must 1)be physically aroused 2)cognitively label the arousal
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Emotional Arousal
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elated excitement and panicky fear involve similar physiological arousal. That allows us to flip rapidly between the two emotions
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Obvious Emotions
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graphic novel authors use facial expressions and other design elements to express emotion, reducing the need to explain how the characters are feeling
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Facial Feedback Effect
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the tendency of facial muscle states to trigger corresponding feelings such as fear, anger, or happiness
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Two Dimensions of Emotion
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Emotions are variations of two dimensions 1)arousal (low vs high) and 2)valence ( pleasant vs unpleasant)
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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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Feel-Good, Do-Good Phenomenon
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people's tendency to be helpful when already in a good mood
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Subjective Well-Being
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self-perceived happiness or satisfaction with life. Used along with measures of objective well-being to evaluate people's quality of life
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Health Psychology
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a subfield of psychology that provides psychology's contribution to behavioral medicine
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Stress
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the process by which we perceive and respond to certain events, called stressors, that we appraise as threatening or challenging.
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General Adaptation Syndrome (GAS)
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Selye's concept of the body's adaptive response to stress in three phases-alarm, resistance, exhaustion
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Selye's General Adaptatism Syndrome
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when a gold copper mine collapsed, family and friends rushed to the scene fearing for the worst
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tend and befriend
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under stress, people often provide support to others and (tend) to bond with and seek support from others (befriend)
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Psychological Illness
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literally "mind-body" illness; any stress related physical illness such as hypertension and some hadaches
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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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lymphnodes
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the two types of white blood cells that are part of the body's immune system
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B lymphnodes
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form in the bone marrow and release antibodies that fight bacterial infections
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T lymphnodes
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form in the thymus and other lymphatic tissue and attack cancer cells, viruses, and foreign substances
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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 aggresive, 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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Coping
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alleviating stress using emotional, cognitive, or behavioral methods
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Problem-focused Copying
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attempting to alleviate stress directly by changing the stressor or the way we interact with the stressor
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Emotion-focused Copying
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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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Aerobic Exercise
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sustained exercise that increases heart and lung fitness; may also alleviate depression and anxiety
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the mood boost
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when one's energy or spirits are sagging
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