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chapter 13

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emotion a response of the whole organism involving: psychological arousal, expressive behaviors, and conscious experience. Ex: happy, sad, excited.
James-Lang Theory our experience of emotion is our awareness of our psychological responses to emotion-arousing. Ex: psychological arousal and our emotional experience occur simultaneously.
Cannon-Bard Theory an emotion-arousing stimulus simultaneously triggers: psychological responses and the subjective experience of emotion. Ex:
schacter's two-factor being physically aroused and cognitively label the arousal. Ex:
polygraph a machine, commly used in attempts to detect lies, that measures several of the physiological responses accompanying emotion Ex: detects perspiration, heart rate, blood pressure.
catharsis emotional release. in psychology, the catharsis hypothesis maintains that "releasing" aggressive energy relieves aggression urges. Ex: when people reretaliate against someone who has provoked them.
feel-good, do-good phenomenon people's tendency to be helpful when already in a good mood. Ex: when we feel happy we are more willing to help people, give them money, pick up dropped papers, etc.
subjective well-being self-perceived happiness or satisfaction with life. measures of objective well-being to evaluate people's quality of life. Ex: high ratio of positive to negative feelings.
adaption-level phenomenon our tendency to form judgments (sounds, of lights, of income) relative to a neutral level defined by our prior experience. Ex: when sounds seem neither loud nor soft, temps. neither not or cold.
relative deprivation the perception that one is worse off relative to those with whom one compares oneself. Ex: soldiers being frusterated about their own promotion rates (seeing so many others being promoted)
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