8b key terms Flashcards
Emotion
A response of the whole organism involving psychological arousal, expressive behaviors, and conscious experience
James Lange theory
Perception of stimulus
Then arousal
Then emotion, arousal comes before emotion
Cannon bard theory
Emotion arousing stimulus simultaneously triggers physiological responses and the emotion
Two factor theory
Schachter-singer theory that to experience emotion one must be aroused and have cognitive label
Polygraph
Machine, used to detect lies; measures physiological responses accompanying emotions
Facial feedback
The effect of facial expressions on experienced emotions, as when a facial expression of anger or happiness intensifies the feeling
Catharsis
Emotional release. Theory that releasing aggressive energy relieves aggressive urges (found false)
Feel good do good phenomenon
People’s tendency to be helpful when already in a good mood
Well being
Self perceived happiness or satisfaction with life, measure of objective well being to evaluate quality of life
Adaption level phenomenon
Tendency to form judgements relative to a neutral level defined by our prior experience
So pleasure, adapt, require better
Relative deprivation
The perception that we are worse off to those with whom we compare ourselves
Behavioral medicine
Field interstates behavioral and medical knowledge and applies that knowledge to health and disease
Health psychology
A subfield of psychology that provides psychologies contribution to behavioral medicine
Stress
The process by which we perceive and respond to certain events, stressors, that we appraise as threatening or challenging
General adaptation syndrome
Selyes concept of the body’s adaptive response to stress in three stages
Alarm resistance and exhaustion
Coronary heart disease
The clogging of the vessels that nourish the heart muscle, leading cause of death in North America
Type A
Friedman and rosenmans term for competitive hard driving impatient verbally aggressive and anger prone people
Type B
Friedman and rosenman term for easygoing relaxed people
Psychophysiological illness
Mind body illness, any stress related physical illness such as hypertension and some headaches
Psychoneuroimmunilogy
The study of how psychological neural and endocrine processes together affect the immune system and resulting health
Lymphocytes
Two types of white blood cells that are part of the body’s immune system
Lymphocytes B
Form in bone marrow and release antibodies that fight bacterial infections
Lymphocytes T
Form in the thymus and other lymphatic tissue and attack cancer cells, viruses, and foreign substances
