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Unit 8b Emotions
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Emotion | a response of the whole organism involving 1) physiological arousal 2) expressive behaviors 3) 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 1) physiological responses 2) the subjective experience of emotion |
| Two-Factor Theory | the Schacter-Singer theory that to experience emotion one must 1) be physically aroused 2) cognitively label the arousal |
| Polygraph | A machine, commonly used in attempts to detect lies, that measures several of the physiological responses accompanying emotion (such as perspiration and cardiovascular and breathing changes). |
| Facial Feedback | The effect of facial expressions on experienced emotions, as when a facial expression of anger or happiness intensifies feelings of anger or happiness. |
| Catharsis | Emotional release. The catharsis hypothesis maintains that “releasing” aggressive energy (through action of fantasy) relieves aggressive urges. |
| Feel-good, do-good Phenbmenon | People’s tendency to be helpful when already in a good mood. |
| Wellbeing | Self-perceived 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 judgments (of sounds, of lights, of income) relative to a neutral level defined by our prior experience. |
| Relative deprivation | The perception that we are worse off relative to those with whom we compare ourselves. |
| Behavioral Medicine | An interdisciplinary field that integrates behavioral and medical knowledge and applies that knowledge to health and disease. |
| 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 | Selye's concept of adaptive response to stress in three stages: alarm, resistance, and exhaustion |
| Coronary Heart Disease | The clogging of vessels that nourish the heart muscle. It is also the leading cause of death in America. |
| Type A | People that Friedman and Rosenman defined as competitive, hard-driving, impatient, verbally aggressive, and anger prone. |
| Type B | People that Friedman and Rosenman defined as easygoing and relaxed. |
| Psychophysiological Illness | Any stress-related physical illness, like hypertension or headaches. |
| Psychoneuroimmunology | The study of how psychological, neural, and endocrine processes affect the immune system. |
| Lymphocytes | White blood cells, of which there are two types: -B lymphocytes, which form bone marrow and fight bacterial infections -T lymphocytes, which form in the lymphatic tissue and attack cancer cells, viruses, etc. |
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AP Psychology 2011