8B Flashcards
Emotion
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.
James-Lang Theory
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)
Cannon-Bard Theory
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
Two-factor theory
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
Polygraph
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
Facial feedback
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
Catharsis
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)
Feel-good, do-good phenomenon
People’s tendency to be helpful when already in a good mood.
-helpful when in good mood
Well-being
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
Adaption level phenomenon
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
Relative deprivation
The perception that we are worse off relative to those with whom we compare ourselves.
Worse off w/ ppl we compare ourselves to
Behavioral medicine
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)
Health psychology
A subfield of psychology that provides psychology’s contribution to behavioral medicine.
-Subfield of behavioral medicine
Stress
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.
General Adaption Syndrome (GAS)
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