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Chapter 13
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Emotion | A response of the whole organism, involving (1)physiological arousal, (2) expressive behaviors, and (3) conscious experience |
| James-Lange Theory | States that our experience of emotion is our awareness of our physiological responses to emotion- arousing stimuli. |
| James-Bard Theory | States that an emotion-arousing stimulus simultaneously triggers (1) Physiological response and (2) the subjective experience of emotion. |
| Schachter's Two-Factor theory | Schachter's Theory that to experience emotion one must: (1) be physically aroused and (2) cognitively label the arousal |
| Catharsis | Emotional Release (hypothesis-"releasing " aggressive energy (through action or fantasy) releases aggressive urges. |
| Feel-good,do good phenomenon | people's tendency to be helpful when in good mood |
| Subjective well-being | Self perceived happiness or satisfaction with life. Used along with measures of objective well being (ex. physical and economic indicators) to evaluate people's quality of life. |
| Adaptation-Level Phenomenon | -tendency to form judgement (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 whom one compares oneself. |
| Spillover Effect | The arousal of one event "spills over" into the next event. E.g. Scary movie date: the date may confuse the two partners as to whether the person they were aroused with was due to their attractiveness or the movie. (notes) |
| Emotional Contagion | The idea that emotions spread from person to person. (notes) |
| Two Dimension of Emotion | Pleasant vs Unpleasant and High Arousal vs Low Arousal. E.g. Boredom: Low Arousal: Unpleasant Anger: High Arousal: Unpleasant Excitement: High Arousal: Pleasant Happy: Low Arousal: Pleasant (notes) |
| The Amygdala Shortcut | When you have a fight or flight response, there is a short cut to the brain from the corpus callosum straight to the amygdala, rather than from the corpus callosum to the occipital lobe to the amygdala. (notes) |
| Six Emotions | Happy, Sad, Angry, Afraid, Disgusted, Surprised, shared throughout cultures |
| Facial Expression Effects | Putting one's face into a certain facial expressing can influence them to express that emotion |
| Non-Verbal Communication | Communication that is done through expression of the body |
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