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Module 37, 38, 39

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Emotion   a full body/mind/behavioral response to a situation (arousal, behavior, and cognition)  
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expressive behavior   yelling, accelerating  
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bodily arousal   sweat, pounding heart  
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conscious experience   thoughts, especially the labeling of the emotion (eg. What a bad driver! I am angry, even scared)  
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James- Lange Theory   body before thoughts; body arousal happens first, and then the cognitive awareness and labeling of the feeling (eg. we observe that our heart is racing after a threat and then feel afraid)  
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Cannon-Bard Theory   body w/ thoughts; conscious/cognitive experience of an emotion at the same time as our body is responding (run parallel) (eg. our heart races as we experience fear)  
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Singer-Schachter/ Two factor Theory   body plus thoughts/label; emotions do not exist until we add a label to whatever body sensations we are feeling (eg. arousal can be labeled as fear or excitement, depending on the context)  
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spillover effect   when arousal was caused by injections of what turned out to be epinephrine  
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Zajonc, LeDoux   body/brain w/o conscious thoughts; some emotions do not involve labeling and happen through "low road"; instant, w/o cognitive appraisal (eg. we automatically react to a sound in the forest w/o appraising it.  
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Lazarus   can involve the appraisal situation that they are in (is that a threat or not?), sometimes w/o our awareness (eg. the sound is just the wind)  
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sympathetic nervous system   fight or flight system (arousal triggers activity)  
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parasympathetic nervous system   calms the body  
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positive "approach" emotions   joy, love, goal-seeking correlate w/ left frontal lobe activity.  
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negative "withdrawal" emotions   disgust, fear, anger, depression correlate w/ right hemisphere activity  
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Extroverts   like to go out and socialize; have emotions that are easier to read  
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Introverts   are more to themselves and are better at detecting emotions  
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Facial feedback effect   facial position and muscle changes can alter which emotion we feel.  
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Carroll Izzard   ten basic emotions: joy, anger, interest, disgust, surprise, sadness, fear, contempt, shame and guilt.  
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2 dimensions of Emotion (James Russell)   1) from pleasant to unpleasant and 2) from low to high arousal  
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flash of anger   gives us energy and initiative to fight or otherwise take action when necessary.  
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Persistent anger   can cause more harm than whatever we're angry about  
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Catharsis myth   idea that we can reduce anger by "releasing" it, and do this by acting aggressively (yelling, punching a pillow)  
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Happiness   a mood, attitude, social phenomenon, cognitive filter, way to stay hopeful, motivated and connected to others.  
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feel-good, do-good phenomenon   when in a good mood, we do more for others. The reverse is true: doing good, feels good.  
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adaptation-level phenomenon   when our wealth or other life conditions improve, we are happier compared to our past condition, but then we adapt, form a "new normal" level, and people must get another boost to feel the same satisfaction.  
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relative deprivation   feeling worse off by comparing yourself to people who are doing better than you.  
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