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#lpeleap Chapter 8
Motivation, emotion, stress, and health
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Adaptation-level Phenomenon | he tendency people have to quickly adapt to a new situation, until that situation becomes the norm. |
| Basal metabalic rate | rate at which the body uses energy while at rest to keep vital functions going, such as breathing and keeping warm. |
| Behavioral medicine | is an interdisciplinary field combining both medicine and psychology and is concerned with the integration of knowledge in the biological, behavioral, psychological, and social sciences relevant to health and illness. |
| Catharsis | the process of releasing, and thereby providing relief from, strong or repressed emotions |
| Emotion | natural instinctive state of mind deriving from one's circumstances, mood, or relationships with others. |
| Syndrome | a group of symptoms that consistently occur together or a condition characterized by a set of associated symptoms |
| Incentive | a thing that motivates or encourages one to do something. |
| Psychoneuroimmunology | study of the effect of the mind on health and resistance to disease. |
| Relative deprivation | allows an objective comparison between the situation of the individual or group compared to the rest of society. Relative deprivation may also be defined as the experience of being deprived of something to which one believes oneself to be entitled. |
| Sexual orientation | a person's sexual identity in relation to the gender to which they are attracted; the fact of being heterosexual, homosexual, or bisexual. |
| Sexual response cycle | a four-stage model of physiological responses to sexual stimulation, which, in order of their occurrence, are the excitement phase, plateau phase, orgasmic phase, and resolution phase. |
| Stress | pressure or tension exerted on a material object. |
| Two-factor theory of emotion | or Schachter–Singer theory, states that emotion is based on two factors: physiological arousal and cognitive label. The theory was created by researchers Stanley Schachter and Jerome E. Singer. |
| Stanley Schachter | proposed the two factor theory of emotion. He said emotions have two ingredients: physiological arousal and a cognitive label. |
| Hans Selye | The term “stress”, as it is currently used was coined by Hans Selye in 1936, who defined it as “the non-specific response of the body to any demand for change”. |
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