Chapter 12 Vocabulary - Emotions

Question 0

The theory that our experience of emotion is our awareness of our physiological responses to emotion-arousing stimulus

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James-Lange Theory

Question 1

A response of the whole organism, involving physiological arousal, expressive behaviors, and conscious experience

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Emotion

Question 2

The theory that an emotion-arousing stimulus simultaneously triggers physiological responses and the subjective experience of emotion

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Cannon-Bard Theory

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The Schachter-Singer theory that to experience emotion one must be physically aroused and cognitively label the arousal

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Two-factor theory

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A machine commonly used in attempts to detect lies, that measures several of the physiological responses (such as perspiration and cardiovascular and breathing changes) accompanying emotion

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Polygraph

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The tendency of facial muscles states to trigger corresponding feelings such as fear, anger, or happiness

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Facial feedback effect

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Emotional release in psychology, that catharsis hypnosis maintains that “releasing” aggressive energy (through action or fantasy) relieves aggressive urges

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Catharsis

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People’s tendency to be helpful when already in a good mood

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Feel-good, do-good phenomenon

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Self-perceived happiness or satisfaction with life

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Subjective well-being

Question 9

Our tendency to form judgements (of sounds, of lights, of income) relative to a neutral level defined by our prior experience

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Adaption-level phenomenon

Question 10

The perception that one is worse off relative to those with whom one compares oneself

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Relative deprivation

Question 11

A subfield of psychology that provides psychology’s contribution to behavioral medicine

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Health psychology

Question 12

The process by which we perceive and respond to certain events, called stressors, that we appraise as threatening or challenging

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Stress

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Selye’s concept of the body’s adaptive response to stress in three phases - alarm, resistance, and exhaustion

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General adaptation syndrome (GAS)

Question 14

Under stress, people (especially women) often provide support to others (tend) and bond with and seek support from others (befriend)

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Tend and befriend

Question 15

Literally, “mind-body” illness; any stress related physical illness, such as hypertension and some headaches

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Psychophysiological illness

Question 16

The two types of white blood cells that are part of the body’s immune system
B lymphocytes form in the bone marrow and release antibodies that fight bacterial infection
T lymphocytes form in that thymus and other lymphatic tissue and attack cancer cells, viruses, and foreign substances

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Lymphocytes

Question 17

The clogging of the vessels that nourish the heart muscle

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Coronary heart disease

Question 18

Friedman and Roseman’s term for competitive, hard-driving, impatient, verbally aggressive, and anger-prone people

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Type A

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Friedman and Rosenman’s term for easygoing, relaxed people

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Type B

Question 20

Alleviating stress using emotional, cognitive, or behavioral methods

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Coping

Question 21

Attempting to alleviate stress directly - by changing the stressor or the way we interact with that stressor

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Problem-focused coping

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Attempting to alleviate stress by avoiding or ignoring a stressor and attending to emotional needs related to ones stress reaction

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Emotion-focused coping

Question 23

Sustained exercise that increases heart and lung fitness; may also alleviate depression and anxiety

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Aerobic exercise

Question 24

The study of how psychological, neural, and endocrine processes together affect the immune system and resulting health

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Psychoneuroimmunology