8bb Flashcards
A response of the whole organism involving physiological arousal or expressive behaviors and 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 physiological responses and the subjective experience of emotion
Cannon-bard theory
The schachter-singer theory that to experience emotion one must be physically aroused and cognitively label to the arousal
Two factor theory
Machine commonly used in attempt to detect lies that measures several of the physiological responses accompany emotion
Polygraph
The effect of facial expressions on experienced emotions, as when one official expression of anger or happiness intensifies feelings of anger or happiness
Facial feedback
Emotional release.
Catharsis
Our tendency to form judgments relative to a neutral level defined by our prior experience
Adaptation level phenomenon
The perception that we are worse off relative to those with whom we compare ourselves
Relative deprivation
In interdisciplinary field that integrates behavioral and medical knowledge and applies the knowledge to health and disease
Behavioral medicine
A subfield of psychology that provides psychology’s contribution to behavioral medicine
Health psychology
The process by which we perceive and respond to certain events, called stressors, and we appraise a threatening or challenging
Stress
Selye’s concept of the body’s adaptive response to stress in three phases- alarm, resistance, exhaustion
General adaptation syndrome
The clogging of the vessels that nourish the heart muscle; the leading cause of death in North America
Coronary heart disease
Friedman and rosenman’s term for competitive, hard driving, impatient, verbally aggressive, and anger prone people
Type A
