Vocab for Chapter 13 Word Scramble
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Term | Description |
Emotion | A response of the whole organism, involving (1) physiological arousal, (2) expressive behaviors, and (3) conscious experience. |
James-Lange theory | The theory that our experience of emotion is our awareness of our physiological responses to emotion-arousing stimuli. |
Cannon-Bard theory | The theory that an emotion-arousing stimulus simultaneously triggers (1) physiological responses and (2) the subjective experience of emotion. |
Two-factor theory | Schacter's theory that to experience emotion one must (1) be physically aroused and (2) cognitively label the arousal. |
Polygraph | A machine, commonly used in attempts to detect lies, that measures several of the physiological responses accompanying emotion (such as perspiration, cardiovascular and breathing changes). |
Catharsis | Emotional release. In psychology, the catharsis hypothesis maintains that "releasing" aggresive energy (through action and fantasy) relieves aggresive urges. |
Feel-Good do-good phenomenon | People's tendency to be helpful when in a good mood. |
Subject well-being | 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. |
Adaptation-level phenomenon | Our tendency to form judgments (of sounds, of lights, of income) relative to a "neutral" level defined by our prior experience. |
Relative deprivation | The perception that one is worse off relative to those with whom one compares oneself. |
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