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
Coronary heart disease
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
Type A
Friedman and Rosenman’s term for competitive, hard-driving, impatient, verbally aggressive, and anger-prone people.
-Aggressive people
Type B
Friedman and Rosenman’s term for easygoing, relaxed people.
-passive people
Psychophysiological illness
Literally, “mind-body” illness; any stress-related physical illness, such as hypertension and some headaches.
-stress related physic. Illness (mind body- headaches)
Psychoneuroimmunology (PNI)
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
Lymphocytes
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
