AP Psych Ch.13 Vocab Word Scramble
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| Term | Definition |
| Emotion | A mix of physiological arousal, expressive behaviors, and 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 physiological responses and the subjective experience of emotion |
| Schachter and Singer's Two Factor Theory | The theory that to experience emotion, one must be physically aroused and cognitively label the arousal |
| 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 |
| Polygraph | A machine, usually used to detect lies, that measures several physiological responses accompanying emotion, such as perspiration and cardiovascular and breathing changes |
| Catharsis | An emotional release |
| Feel good, do good phenomenon | People's tendency to be helpful when they are already in a good mood |
| 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 |
| Adaptation level phenomenon | Our tendency to form judgments (of sound, light, income, etc.) relative to a neutral level defined by previous experience |
| Relative deprivation | The perception that one is worse off relative to those with whom one compares oneself |
| 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 |
| Non-verbal communication | Emotions expressed on the face, by the body, and by the intonation of voice |
| Universal emotions | Happiness, disgust, anger, fear, surprise, sadness, contempt |
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