Chapter 8B Vocab Flashcards
A response of the whole organism involving psychological arousal expressively behaviors and conscious experience
Emotion
The theory that our experience of emotion is our awareness of our psychological responses to emotion arousing stimuli
James Lange theory
The theory that an emotion arousing stimulus simultaneously triggers psychological responses in the subjective experience of emotion
Cannon Bard theory
The Schachter-Singer theory that to experience emotion one must be physically aroused and cognitively label the arousal
Two-factor theory
A machine commonly used in attempts to detect lies that measure several of your psychological responses accompanying emotion
Polygraph
The effect of facial expressions on experienced emotions as well as your expression of anger or happiness intensifies feelings of anger or happiness
Facial feedback
Emotional release
Catharsis
People’s tendency to be helpful when already in a good
Feel good do good phenomenon
Self perceived happiness or satisfaction with life
Well being
Our tendency to form judgements relative to a neutral level defined by our prior experience
Adaptation-level phenomenon
The perception that we are worse off relative to those with whom we compare ourselves
Relative deprivation
An interdisciplinary field that integrates behavioral and medical knowledge and applies knowledge to health and disease
Behavioral medicine
A subfield of psychology that provide psychology’s contribution to behavioral medicine
Health psychology
The process by which we perceive and respond to certain events, called stressors, that we appraise as threatening or challenging
Stress
Selyes concept of the body’s adaptive response to stress in three phases -alarm,resistance, exhaustion
General adaptation syndrome
