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Chapter 12
Emotions, Stress, and Health
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Emotion | A response of the whole organism, involving physiological arousal, expressive behaviors, and 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 physiological responses and the subjective experience of emotion |
| Schachter-Singer Theory | The theory that to experience emotion one must be physically aroused and cognitively label the arousal |
| Facial Feedback Effect | The tendency of facial muscle states to trigger corresponding feelings such as fear, anger, or happiness. |
| Catharsis | Emotional release |
| Feel-Good, Do-Good Phenomenon | People's tendency to be helpful when already in a good mood |
| Subjective Well-Being | Self-perceived happiness or satisfaction with life. Used along with measures of objective well-being. |
| Apaptation-Level Phenomenon | Our tendency to form judgements 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. |
| Health Psychology | A subfield of psychology that provides psychology's contribution to behavioral medicine |
| Stress | The process by which we perceive and respond to certain events, called stressors, that we appraise as threatening or challenging |
| General Adaptation Syndrome (GAS) | Selye's concept of the body's adaptive response to stress in three phases - alarm, resistance, and exhaustion. |
| Tend and Befriend | Under stress, people often provide support to others and bond with and seek support from others |
| Psychophysiological Illness | Literally, mind-body illness; any stress-related physical illness, such as hypertension |
| Psychoneuroimmunology | The study of how psychological, neural, and endocrine processes together affect the immune system and resulting health |
| Lymphocytes (two types) | B - formed in the bone marrow and release antibodies that fight bacterial infections T - formed in the thymus and fights cancer cells, viruses, and foreign substances |
| Coronary Heart Disease | The clogging of the vessels that nourish the heart muscle; the leading cause of death in many developed countries |
| Type A | People who are hard driven and hard workers, easily angered and competitive |
| Type B | Relaxed and chill peeps |
| Coping | Alleviating stress using emotional, cognitive, or behavioral methods |
| Problem-Focused Coping | Attempting to alleviate stress directly by changing the stressor or the way we interact with that stressor |
| Emotion-Focused Coping | Attempting to alleviate stress by avoiding or ignoring a stressor and attending to emotional needs related to one's stress reaction |
| Aerobic Excercise | Sustained exercise that increases heart and lung fitness; may also alleviate depression and anxiety |
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