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Chp 13
Emotion
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Emotion | response of the whole organism, involving physiological arousal, expressive behaviors, and conscious experience |
| James-Lange Theory | theory that our experience of emotion is our awaremess of our physiological responses to emotion-arousing stimuli |
| Cannon-Bard Theory | theory that an emotion-arousing stimulus simultaneously triggers phusiological responses and the subective experience of emotion |
| Two-Factor Theory | Schachter's theory that to experience emotion one must be physically aroused and cognitively label the arousal. |
| Polygraph | Machine, commonly used in attempts to detect lies, that measures several of the physiological responses accompanying emotion like perspiration, 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 tendency to be helpful when already in a 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'e quality of life |
| Adaptation-level phenomenon | our tendency to form judgments (sounds, lights, income) relative to a neutral level defined by our prior experience |
| Relative deprivation | perception that one is worse offf relative to those whom one compares oneself |
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