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Emotion

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A response of the whole organism, involving (1) physiological arousal, (2) expressive behaviors, and (3) conscious experience.

-Response of whole organism psychological, behavior, and experience.

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James-Lang Theory

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Theory that our experience of emotion is our awareness of our physiological responses to emotion-arousing stimuli.

  • sad b/c we weep
  • experience(arousal) = awareness(emotion)
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Cannon-Bard Theory

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Theory that an emotion-arousing stimulus simultaneously triggers (1) physiological responses and (2) the subjective experience of emotion.

-heart pounding (arousal) and love(emotion) simultaneously occur

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Two-factor theory

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Schachter-singer theory that to experience emotion one must (1) be physically aroused and (2) cognitively label the arousal.

  • must be aroused and cognitively lanes it to experience emotion.
  • heart pounds (arousal), I am in love (cognitively label), love(emotion
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Polygraph

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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)

-lie detector

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Facial feedback

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The effect of facial expressions on experienced emotions, as when a facial expression of anger or happiness intensifies feeling of anger or happiness.

-facial expression intensifying feeling

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Catharsis

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Emotional release. The catharsis hypothesis maintains that “releasing” aggressive energy (through action or fantasy) relieves aggressive urges.

-emotional release (theory states that releasing anger relieves urges)

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Feel-good, do-good phenomenon

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People’s tendency to be helpful when already in a good mood.

-helpful when in good mood

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Well-being

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Self-perceived happiness or satisfaction with life. Used along with measures of objective well-being (I.e physical and economic indicators) to evaluate people’s quality of life.

-happiness/satisfaction w/ life

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Adaption level phenomenon

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Tendency to form judgements (sounds, lights, income) relative to a neutral level defined by our prior experience.

-judge based on prior experience.
Water park > community pool b/c adaption

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Relative deprivation

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The perception that we are worse off relative to those with whom we compare ourselves.

Worse off w/ ppl we compare ourselves to

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Behavioral medicine

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An interdisciplinary field that integrates behavioral and medical knowledge and applies that knowledge to health and disease.

-integrates behavioral and medical knowledge (applies to health and disease)

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Health psychology

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A subfield of psychology that provides psychology’s contribution to behavioral medicine.

-Subfield of behavioral medicine

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Stress

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The process by which we perceive and response to certain events, called stressors, that we appraise as threatening or challenging.

-stressors seen as threatening or challenging.

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General Adaption Syndrome (GAS)

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Selye’s concept of the body’s adaptive response to stress in three phases–alarm, resistance, and exhaustion.

-Selye’s 3 phase response; alarm, resistance, and exhaustion

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Coronary heart disease

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The clogging of the vessels that nourish the heart muscle; the leading cause of death in North America.

  • clogging vessels that nourish heart muscle
  • leading cause of death in America
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Type A

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Friedman and Rosenman’s term for competitive, hard-driving, impatient, verbally aggressive, and anger-prone people.

-Aggressive people

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Type B

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Friedman and Rosenman’s term for easygoing, relaxed people.

-passive people

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Psychophysiological illness

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Literally, “mind-body” illness; any stress-related physical illness, such as hypertension and some headaches.

-stress related physic. Illness (mind body- headaches)

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Psychoneuroimmunology (PNI)

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The study of how psychological, neutral, and endocrine process together affect the immune system and resulting in health.

-study of how endocrine, psycho., and neutral process work to affect immune system and health

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Lymphocytes

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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.

  • two white blood cells
  • b:form on marrow release antibody to fight bacteri.
  • t:form in thymus