Chapter 12 Flashcards
A response of the who organism, involving (1) physiological arousal, (2) expressive behaviors, and (3) conscious experience.
Emotion
The theory that our experience of emotion is our awareness of our physiological responses to an emotion arousing stimulus.
James Lange Theory
The theory that an emotion-arousing stimulus simultaneously triggers (1) physiological responses and (2) the subjective experience of emotion.
Cannon Bard Theory
The Schachter-Singer theory that to experience emotion one must (1) be physically aroused and (2) cognitively label the arousal.
Two Factor Theory
A machine used in attempts to detect lies that measures several of the physiological responses (such as perspiration, heart rate, and breathing changes) accompanying emotion.
Polygraph
The tendency of facial muscle states to trigger corresponding feelings such as fear, anger, or happiness.
Facial Feedback Effect
In psychology, the idea that “releasing” aggressive energy (through action or fantasy) relieves aggressive urges.
Catharis
People’s tendency to be helpful when in a good mood.
Feel good; do good phenomenon
The scientific study of human flourishing, with goals of discovering and promoting strengths and virtues that help individuals and communities to thrive.
Positive Psychology
Self-perceived happiness or satisfaction with life. Used along with measures of objective well-being (for example, physical and economic indicators) to evaluate people’s quality of life.
subjective well-being
Our tendency to form judgments (of sounds, of lights, of income) relative to a neutral level defined by our experience.
Adaptation level Phenomenon
The perception that one is worse off relative to those with whom one compares oneself.
relative deprivation
The process by which we perceive and respond to certain events, called stressors, that we appraise as threatening or challenging.
Stress
Selye’s concept of the body’s adaptive response to stress in three phases - alarm, resistance, exhaustion.
General Adaptation syndrome
Under stress, people (especially women) often provide support to others (tend) and bond with and seek support from others (befriend).`
tend befriend
A subfield of psychology that provide’s psychology’s contribution to behavioral medicine.
Health psychology
The study of how psychological, neural, and endocrine processes together affect the immune system and resulting health.
psychoneuroimmunology
The clogging of the vessels that nourish the heart muscle; the leading cause of death in many developed countries.
Coronary heart disease
Friedman and Rosenman’s term for competitive, hard-driving, impatient, verbally aggressive, and anger-prone people.
Type A
Friedman and Rosenman’s term for easygoing, relaxed people.
Type B
Alleviating stress using emotional, cognitive, or behavioral methods.
Coping
Attempting to alleviate stress by avoiding or ignoring a stressor and attending to emotional needs related to our stress reaction.
Emotion focused coping
Attempting to alleviate stress directly - by changing the stressor or the way we interact with that stressor.
Problem Focused coping
Our sense of controlling our environment rather than feeling helpless.
Personal Control
The hopelessness and passive resignation an animal or person learns when unable to avoid repeated aversive events.
Learned Helplessness
The perception that chance or outside forces beyond our personal control determine our fate.
External Locus Control
The perception that we control our own fate.
Internal Locus of Control
The ability to control impulses and delay short-term gratification for greater long-term rewards.
Self Control
Sustained exercise that increases heart and lung fitness; also helps alleviate depression and anxiety.
Aerobic Exercise
A reflective practice in which people attend to current experiences in a nonjudgmental and accepting manner.
Mindfulness Meditation
