8B- Emotions, Stress, and Health Flashcards
The theory that conscious awareness comes first, them physiological trimmings; this theory is not always the case
Common sense theory
A response of the whole organism, involving (1) physiological arousal, (2) expressive behaviors, and (3) conscious experience
Emotion
The theory that our experience of emotion is our awareness of our physiological responses to emotion-arousing stimuli
James-Lange theory
The theory that an emotion-arousing stimulus simultaneously triggers (1) physiological responses and (2) the subjective experience of emotion
Cannon-Bard theory
The Schacter-Singer theory that to experience emotion one must (1) be physically aroused and (2) cognitively label the arousal at the same time
Two-factor theory
The part of the automatic nervous system that does the arousing
Sympathetic nervous system
The part of the automatic nervous system that does the calming
Parasympathetic nervous system
__________ arousal is ideal
Moderate
An experiment that measured physiological response to different emotions by placing different individuals into different rooms to watch different types of movies while being monitored for their physiological response
Different movie experiment
______ activity for those watching fearful faces in the amygdala than watching angry faces
More
Depression prone people show _____ right brain frontal lobe activity than those who do not suffer from depression
More
Positive moods can be seen with _____ frontal lobe activity
Left
Small cluster of neurons that lights up when people experience natural or drug-induced pleasure; when electrically stimulated, it produces happiness
Nucleus accumbens
Commonly used to detect lies; measures several of the physiological responses accompanying emotion
Polygraph
When an aroused response to one event spills over into our response to the next event
Spillover effect
_____ fuels emotions, ____ channels it
Arousal; cognition
Activated muscles under the eyes and raised cheeks suggest a natural smile
Duchenne smile
______ tend to be more sensitive to the nonverbal communication of others
Women
Happiness, anger, surprise, fear, sadness, and disgust
Emotions with universal expressions
The effect of facial expressions on experienced emotions, as when a facial expression of anger or happiness intensifies feelings of anger or happiness
Facial feedback
Activates the sympathetic nervous system
Fear