Aaron Jennings Chapter 8B Vocab Flashcards
The theory that I experience of emotion is our awareness of our physiological responses to emotion arousing stimuli
James Lange theory
Theory that an emotion arousing stimulus simultaneously triggers physiological responses and the subjective experience of emotion
Cannon Bard theory
Schacter singer theory that to experience emotion one must be physically aroused and cognitively label the arousal
Two factor theory
A machine commonly used in attempts to detect lies that measures several of the physiological responses accompanying emotion
Poly graph
The effects of facial expressions on experience emotions, as when a basal expression of anger or happiness intensifies feelings of anger or happiness
Facial feedback
Emotional release. The catharsis hypothesis maintains that releasing aggressive energy relieves aggressive urges
Catharsis
People’s tendency to be helpful when already in a good mood
Feel good do good phenomenon
Self perceived happiness or satisfaction with life. Used along with measures of objective well-being
Well-being
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
An interdisciplinary field that integrates behavioral and medical knowledge in the prize that 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 that we appraised as threatening or challenging
Stress
Selyes concept of the bodies adaptive response to stress and three phases alarm resistance and exhaustion
General adaptation syndrome
Recording of the vessels that nourish the heart muscle the leading cause of death in North America
Coronary heart disease
