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Unit 8B AP Psych
Question | Answer |
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Emotion | A response of the whole organism, involving (1) physiological arousal, (2) expressive behaviors, and (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 and (2) the subjective experience of emotion. |
Two-factor Theory | The Schachter-Singer theory that to experience emotion one must (1) be physically aroused and (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 or fantasy) relieves aggressive urges. |
Feel-good, Do-good Phenomenon | People's tendency to be helpful when already in a good mood. |
Well-being | 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. |
Adaptation-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 (GAS) | Selye's concept of the body's adaptive response to stress in three phases -- alarm, resistance, exhaustion. |
Coronary Heart Disease | The clogging of the vessels that nourish the heart muscle; the leading cause of death in North America. |
Type A | Friedman and Rosenman's term for competitive, hard-driving, impatient, verbally aggressive, and anger-prone people. |
Type B | Friedman and Rosenman's term for easygoing, relaxed people. |
Psychophysiological Illness | Literally, "mind-body" illness; any stress-related physical illness, such as hypertension and some headaches. |
Psychneuroimmunology (PNI) | The study of how psychological, neural, and endocrine processes together affect the immune system and resulting health. |
Lymphocytes | The two types of white blood cells that are part of the body's immune system. |
B Lymphocytes | Form in the bone marrow and release antibodies that fight bacterial infections. |
T Lymphocytes | Form in the thymus and other lymphatic tissue and attack cancer cells, viruses, and foreign substances. |