Emotion Flashcards
Relative deprivation
The perception that one is worse off relative to those with whom one compares oneself
Feel-good, do good phenomenon
People’s tendency to be helpful when already in a good mood
Complementary and alternative medicine
Unproven health care treatments not taught widely in medical schools, not used in hospitals, and not usually reimbursed by insurance companies
Adaption level phenomenon
Our tendency to form judgments relative to a neutral level defined by our prior experience
Subjective well-being
Self-perceived happiness or satisfaction with life
Type A
Friedman and Rosenman’s term for competitive, hard-driving, impatient, verbally aggressive and anger-prone people
Problem-focused coping
Attempting to alleviate stress directly by changing the stressor or the way we interact with that stressor
Two-Factor Theory
Schachter-Singers’s theory that to experience emotion one must be physically aroused and cognitively label the arousal
Polygraph
A machine that measures several of the physiological responses accompanying emotion (lie detector)
Stress
The process by which we perceive and respond to certain events (stressors) that we appraise as threatening or challenging
Lymphocytes
The two types of white blood cells that are part of the body’s immune system
James-Lange Theory
The theory that our experience of emotion is our awareness of our physiological response to emotion arousing stimuli
Psychophysiological illness
Literally, “mind-body” illness; any stress-related physical illness, such as hypertension and some headaches
Behavioral medicine
An interdisciplinary field that integrates behavioral and medical knowledge and applies that knowledge to health and disease
Coronary heart disease
the clogging of the vessels that nourish the heart muscle
