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Emotion - AP Psychology, Chapter 13

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Emotion   A mix of physiological arousal, expressive behaviors, and conscious experience  
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James Lange Theory   The theory that our experience of emotion is our awareness of our physiological responses to emotion-arousing stimuli  
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Cannon Bard Theory   The theory that an emotion-arousing stimulus simultaneously triggers physiological responses and the subjective experience of emotion  
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Schachter and Singer's Two Factor Theory   The theory that to experience emotion, one must be physically aroused and cognitively label the arousal  
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Spillover effect   Our arousal from one event (a run, a hormone injection) can intensify the way we feel about a subsequent event - and a stirred-up state can be experienced as many different emotions depending on how we label it  
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Polygraph   A machine, usually used to detect lies, that measures several physiological responses accompanying emotion, such as perspiration and cardiovascular and breathing changes  
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Catharsis   An emotional release  
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Feel good, do good phenomenon   People's tendency to be helpful when they are already in a good mood  
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Subjective well being   A person's self-perceived happiness or satisfaction with life, used along with measures of objective well-being (e.g. physical and economic indicators) to evaluate a person's quality of life  
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Adaptation level phenomenon   Our tendency to form judgments (of sound, light, income, etc.) relative to a neutral level defined by previous experience  
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Relative deprivation   The perception that one is worse off relative to those with whom one compares oneself  
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Behavior feedback phenomenon   If we move our bodies as we would when experiencing a given emotion, we are likely to feel that emotion to some degree  
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Non-verbal communication   Emotions expressed on the face, by the body, and by the intonation of voice  
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Universal emotions   Happiness, disgust, anger, fear, surprise, sadness, contempt  
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