8b key terms

Question 1

Emotion

Answer 1

A response of the whole organism involving psychological arousal, expressive behaviors, and conscious experience

Question 2

James Lange theory

Answer 2

Perception of stimulus
Then arousal
Then emotion, arousal comes before emotion

Question 3

Cannon bard theory

Answer 3

Emotion arousing stimulus simultaneously triggers physiological responses and the emotion

Question 4

Two factor theory

Answer 4

Schachter-singer theory that to experience emotion one must be aroused and have cognitive label

Question 5

Polygraph

Answer 5

Machine, used to detect lies; measures physiological responses accompanying emotions

Question 6

Facial feedback

Answer 6

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

Question 7

Catharsis

Answer 7

Emotional release. Theory that releasing aggressive energy relieves aggressive urges (found false)

Question 8

Feel good do good phenomenon

Answer 8

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

Question 9

Well being

Answer 9

Self perceived happiness or satisfaction with life, measure of objective well being to evaluate quality of life

Question 10

Adaption level phenomenon

Answer 10

Tendency to form judgements relative to a neutral level defined by our prior experience
So pleasure, adapt, require better

Question 11

Relative deprivation

Answer 11

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

Question 12

Behavioral medicine

Answer 12

Field interstates behavioral and medical knowledge and applies that knowledge to health and disease

Question 13

Health psychology

Answer 13

A subfield of psychology that provides psychologies contribution to behavioral medicine

Question 14

Stress

Answer 14

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

Question 15

General adaptation syndrome

Answer 15

Selyes concept of the body’s adaptive response to stress in three stages
Alarm resistance and exhaustion

Question 16

Coronary heart disease

Answer 16

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

Question 17

Type A

Answer 17

Friedman and rosenmans term for competitive hard driving impatient verbally aggressive and anger prone people

Question 18

Type B

Answer 18

Friedman and rosenman term for easygoing relaxed people

Question 19

Psychophysiological illness

Answer 19

Mind body illness, any stress related physical illness such as hypertension and some headaches

Question 20

Psychoneuroimmunilogy

Answer 20

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

Question 21

Lymphocytes

Answer 21

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

Question 22

Lymphocytes B

Answer 22

Form in bone marrow and release antibodies that fight bacterial infections

Question 23

Lymphocytes T

Answer 23

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