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8B- Emotions, Stress, and Health Flashcards

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The theory that conscious awareness comes first, them physiological trimmings; this theory is not always the case

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Common sense theory

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

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Emotion

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The theory that our experience of emotion is our awareness of our physiological responses to emotion-arousing stimuli

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James-Lange theory

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

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Cannon-Bard theory

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The Schacter-Singer theory that to experience emotion one must (1) be physically aroused and (2) cognitively label the arousal at the same time

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Two-factor theory

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The part of the automatic nervous system that does the arousing

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Sympathetic nervous system

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The part of the automatic nervous system that does the calming

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Parasympathetic nervous system

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__________ arousal is ideal

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Moderate

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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

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Different movie experiment

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______ activity for those watching fearful faces in the amygdala than watching angry faces

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More

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Depression prone people show _____ right brain frontal lobe activity than those who do not suffer from depression

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More

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Positive moods can be seen with _____ frontal lobe activity

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Left

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Small cluster of neurons that lights up when people experience natural or drug-induced pleasure; when electrically stimulated, it produces happiness

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Nucleus accumbens

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Commonly used to detect lies; measures several of the physiological responses accompanying emotion

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Polygraph

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When an aroused response to one event spills over into our response to the next event

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Spillover effect

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_____ fuels emotions, ____ channels it

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Arousal; cognition

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Activated muscles under the eyes and raised cheeks suggest a natural smile

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Duchenne smile

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______ tend to be more sensitive to the nonverbal communication of others

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Women

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Happiness, anger, surprise, fear, sadness, and disgust

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Emotions with universal expressions

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

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Facial feedback

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Activates the sympathetic nervous system

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Fear

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Nerves that leave the ______ control heartrate, attention, sweating, and stress hormones

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Amygdala

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Especially likely to feel ____ when a loved ones’ or friends’ misdeeds seem willful, unjustifiable, and avoidable

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Angry

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Emotional release; maintains that “releasing” aggressive energy relieves aggressive urges

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Catharsis

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Expressing anger can ____ anger

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Increase

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

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Feel-good, do-good phenomenon

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Self-perceived happiness or satisfaction with life

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Well-being

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Our tendency to form judgements relative to a neutral level defined by our prior experience

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Adaptation-level phenomenon

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

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Relative deprivation

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High self esteem, optimistic, outgoing, and aggressive, close friendships or satisfying marriage, work and leisure engage skills, meaningful religious faith, and sleep well and exercise

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Predictors of happiness

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people who are psychologists who are involved in behavior medicine

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healthy psychology

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integrates behavioral and medical knowledge and applies that knowledge to health and disease

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behavioral medicine

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process by which we perceive and respond to certain events that we appraise as threatening or challenging

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stress

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concept of the body’s adaptive response to stress in 3 phases: (1) Alarm, (2) resistance, (3) exhaustion

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general adaptive syndrome (GAS)

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mobilize resources

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alarm phase

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cope with the stressor

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resistance phase

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body’s reserves are depleted

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exhaustion phase

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unpredictable large-scale events that nearly everyone appraises as threatening

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catastrophes

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significant personal life change, ie death of a loved one, job loss, leaving home, marriage, or divorce

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significant life changes

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everyday annoyances, ie rush-hour traffic, long lines, too much to do, email spam, etc

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daily hassel

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the clogging of the vessels that nourish the heart muscle

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coronary heart disease

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

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Type A

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Friedman and Rosenman’s term for easygoing, relaxed people

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Type B

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“mind-body” illness; any stress-related physical illness

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psychophysiological illness

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the study of how psychological, neural, and endocrine processes together affect the immune system and resulting health

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psychoneuroimmunology (PNI)

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the two types of white blood cells that are part of the body’s immune system

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lymphocytes

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form in the bone marrow and release antibodies that fight bacterial infections

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B lymphocyte

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form in the thymus and other lymphatic tissue and attack cancer cells, viruses, and foreign substances

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T lymphocyte

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alleviating stress

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coping

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attempting to alleviate stress directly- by changing the stressor or the way we interact with that stressor

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problem-focused coping

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attempting to alleviate stress by avoiding or ignoring a stressor and attending to emotional needs related to one’s stress reaction

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emotion-focused coping

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affects how we physcially handle stress

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explanatory style

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have more control over stressors, cope better with stressful events, have better moods, and have a stronger immune system

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optimistic style

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sustained exercise that increases heart and lung fitness; may also alleviate depression and anxiety; can elevate mood and well-being

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aerobic exercise

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