8B3 & 8B4

Question 1

Catharsis

Answer 1

Emotional release. The catharsis hypothesis maintains that “releasing” aggressive energy (through action or fantasy) relieves aggressive urges

Question 2

Feel-good, do-good phenomenon

Answer 2

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

Question 3

Well-being

Answer 3

Self-perceived happiness or satisfaction with life. Used along with measured of objective well-being (for example, physical and economic indicators) to evaluate people’s quality of life

Question 4

Adaptive-level phenomenon

Answer 4

Our tendency to form judgments (of sounds, of lights, of income) relative to a neutral level defined by our prior experience

Question 5

Relative deprivation

Answer 5

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

Question 6

Facial feedback

Answer 6

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