Ch 8 Emotion And Motivation

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Display rules

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The permissible ways of displaying emotions in a particular society

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Emotion

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A four-part process that involves physiological arousal, subjective feelings, cognitive interpretation, and behavior expression - all of which interact, rather than occurring in a linear sequence. Emotions help organisms deal with important events

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Lateralization of emotion

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Different influences of the two brain hemispheres on various emotions. The left hemisphere influences positive emotions and the right influences negative emotions

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James-Lange theory

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The proposal that an emotion-provoking stimulus produces a physical response that, in turn, produces an emotion

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Cannon-bard theory

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The counter-proposal that an emotional feeling and an internal physiological response occur at the same time: One is not the cause of the other. Both believed to be the result of cognitive appraisal of the situation

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Two factor theory

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The proposal claiming that emotions results from the cognitive appraisal of both physical arousal (factor 1) and an emotion provoking stimulus (factor 2)

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Cognitive appraisal theory

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Theory of emotion which theorizes that individuals decide on an appropriate emotion following the event

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Opponent-process theory

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Theory of emotion which theorizes that emotions, which theorizes that emotions have pairs. When one is triggered, the other is suppressed (for example, when we feel happy, sad is the suppressed emotion)

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Inverted U function

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Describes the relationship between arousal and performance. Both low and high levels of arousal produce lower performance than does a moderate level of arousal

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Sensation seekers

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In Zuckerman’s theory, individuals who have a biological need for higher levels of stimulation than do other people

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Emotional intelligence

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The ability to understand and control emotional responses

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Polygraph

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A device that records or graphs many (“poly”) measures of physical arousal, and blood pressure. A polygraph is often called a lie detector even though it is really an arousal detector

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Sexual response cycle

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The four-stage sequence of arousal, plateau, orgasm, and resolution

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Sexual scripts

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Socially learned ways of responding in sexual situations

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Approach-approach conflict

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A conflict in which one must choose between two equally attractive options

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Approach - avoidance conflict

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A conflict in which there are both appealing and negative aspects to the decision to be made

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Avoidance - avoidance conflict

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A conflict in which one has to choose between two equally unattractive options

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Multiple approach - avoidance conflict

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A conflict in which one must choose between options that have both many attractive and many negative aspects

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Sexual orientation

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Homo, heter, or bi

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Stress

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a physical and mental response to a challenging or threatening situation

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Stressor

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A stressful stimulus, a condition demanding adpatation

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Traumatic stressor

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A situation that threatens one’s physical safety, arousing feelings of fear, horror, or helplessness

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Acute stress

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A temporary pattern of stressor - activated arousal with a distinct onset and limited duration

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Chronic stress

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Continuous stressful arousal persisting over time

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General adaptation syndrome (GAS)

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Pattern of general physical responses that take essentially the same form in responding to any serious chronic stressor

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Alarm reaction

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First stage of the GAS, during which the body mobilizes its resources to cope with a stressor

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Stage of resistance

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Second stage of GAS during which the body adapts to and uses resources to cope with a stressor

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Stage of exhaustion

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Third stage of the GAS, during which the body depletes its resources in responding to an ongoing stressor

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Tend - and - befriend model

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Stress response model proposing that females are biologically predisposed to respond to threat by nurturing and protecting offspring and seeking social support

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Immune system

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Bodily organs and responses that protect the body from foreign substances and threats

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Psychoneuroimmunology

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Multidisciplinary field that studies the influence of mental states on the immune system

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Cytokines

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Hormone like chemicals facilitating communication between brain and immune system

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Type A

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Behavior pattern characterized intense angry, competitive, or perfectionistic responses to challenging situations

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Type B

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Behavior pattern characterized by relaxed, unstressed approach to life