Chapter 11- Emotion, Stress and Health

Question 1

emotion

Answer 1

state of arousal involving facial and bodily changes, brain activation, cognitive appraisals, subjective feelings, tendencies toward action.

Question 2

primary emotions

Answer 2

emotions that are considered to be universal and biologically based - fear, anger, joy, surprise, sadness, disgust, contempt

Question 3

secondary emotions

Answer 3

emotions that are specific to certain cultures

Question 4

facial feedback

Answer 4

process by which the facial muscles send messages to the brain about the basic emotion being expressed

Question 5

mirror neurons

Answer 5

brain cells fire when a person/animal observes others carrying out an action, they are involved in empathy, imitation and reading emotions- intentional.

Question 6

display rules

Answer 6

social and cultural rules that regulate when and how and where a person may express or suppress emotions

Question 7

emotion work

Answer 7

expression of an emotion, often because of a role requirement, that a person does not really feel.

Question 8

general adaptation syndrome

Answer 8

Hans Selye, series of physiological reactions to stress occurring in 3 phases : alarm, resistance, exhaustion

Question 9

HPA (Hypothalamus-pituitary-adrenal cortex) axis

Answer 9

system activated to energize body to respond to stressors

Question 10

psychoneuroimmunology

Answer 10

the study of the relationship among psychology, the nervous and endocrine system and immune system.

Question 11

locus of control

Answer 11

general expectation about whether the results of your actions are under your own control (internal) or beyond your control (external)

Question 12

primary control

Answer 12

an effort to modify reality by changing other people, the situation, or events; a fighting back philosophy

Question 13

secondary control

Answer 13

an effort to accept reality by changing your own attitudes, goals, or emotions; a learn to live w it philosophy