chapter 10: emotions and motivations Flashcards

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arousal

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arousal—our experiences of the bodily responses created by the sympathetic division of the autonomic nervous system

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Emotions

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the mental and physiological feeling states that direct our attention and guide our behavior

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Cannon-Bard theory of emotion

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proposed that the experience of an emotion is accompanied by physiological arousal

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The James-Lange theory of emotion

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proposes that our experience of an emotion is the result of the arousal that we experience.

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emotion regulation.

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The ability to successfully control our emotions

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