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Nason Chapter 13
Emotion Vocab
| Vocab Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| Emotion | a response of the whole organism, involving (1) physiological arrousal, (2) expressive behaviors, and (3) conscious experience |
| James-Lange Theory | teh theory that our experience of emotion is our awareness of our physiological responses to emotion-arrousing stimuli |
| Cannon-Bard Theory | the theory that an emotion-arrousing stimulus simultaneously triggers (1) physiological responses and (2) the subjective experience of emotion |
| Two-Factor Theory | Schachter-Singer's theory that to experience emotion one must (1) be physically arroused and (2) cognitively label the arrousal |
| Polygraph | a machine, commonly used in attempts to detect lies, that measures several of the physiological responses accompanying emotions (such as sweating and cardiovascular and breathing changes) |
| Catharsis | emotional release. In psychology, the catharsis hypothesis maintains that "releasing" aggressive energy (through action or fantasy) relieves aggressive urges |
| Feel-Good, Do-Good Phenomenon | people's tenedency to be helpful when already in a good mood |
| Subjective Well-Being | self-percieved 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 |
| Adaption-Level Phenomenon | our tendency to form judgements (of sounds, lights, or 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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