Emotions and Stress (Unit 9 & 10) Flashcards
To experience emotion, one must:
1. Be ______ aroused
2. Show an _____ _____
3. Be _______ of the experience/______ that occurs
- Physically
- Expressive Behavior
- Conscious; Emotion
The emotional release:
Catharsis
Suggests that for every major emotion there is an accompanying visceral experience:
James-Lange Theory
The behavior response comes first and predetermines the emotion:
James-Lange Theory
Bear sighting: Heart beats, tremble, run, and THEN feel emotion:
James-Lange Theory
The behavior and the emotion occur simultaneously:
Cannon-Bard Theory
Infer emotion from labeling the situation before choosing the emotion:
Schacter & Singer Two-Factor Theory
Zajonc and LeDoux emphasize that some emotions are immediate, without conscious appraisal:
Cognitive Appraisal Theory
When we experience an emotion, and opposing emotion will counter the first emotion, lessening the experience of the first emotion:
Solomon and Corbit - Opponent Process
Which theory explains drug addiction/sensations seekers?
Solomon and Corbit - Opponent Process
Risky but socially acceptable activities:
Thrill and Adventure Seeking
Mind, senses, and nonconforming lifestyle:
Experience seeking
Chose middle class life but find it boring, so seek an escape:
Disinhibition
Get restless - do not like repetition:
Boredom Susceptibility
Where are positive emotions located?
The Left Hemisphere
Where are negative emotions located?
The Right Hemisphere
__________ perspective shows that basic emotions are experienced and displayed across cultures:
Evolutionary
Found the 6 universal facial expressions:
Paul Ekman
What are the 6 universal facial expressions?
- Happy
- Sad
- Fear
- Anger
- Disgust
- Surprise
Supports facial expressions not only reflect emotional experience, but they also help determine ho people experience and label emotions:
Facial Feedback Hypothesis
The mental and physical condition that occurs when we encounter demands or expectations and we must adapt to the environment
Stress
Positive stress:
Eustress
Negative stress:
Distress
A condition or event that challenges or threatens a person:
Stressors
Cause psychological injury or intense emotional pain:
Traumatic Stressors
A low intensity stressor:
Frustrations
Negative emotional state when an environmental factor prevents you from reaching a goal:
External Frustration
Your own internal characteristics impede your progress towards a goal:
Personal Frustration
Who created the Cognitive-Appraisal Theory for Stress and Coping?
Richard Lazarus
Our emotional experience depends on our interpretation of the situation we are in:
Cognitive-Appraisal Theory for Stress and Coping
An individual’s interpretation of what is at stake:
Primary Appraisal
An assessment of the resources available for coping:
Secondary Appraisal
Who created the Fight or Flight/Stress Response System?
Walter Cannon
Who created the General Adaptation Syndrome (GAS)?
Hans Selye
Appraises the situation and mobilizes resources for coping: activation of the sympathetic nervous system:
Alarm
Person tries to cope with the stressors; hormones secreted:
Resistance
Body’s energy is depleted and left vulnerable:
Exhaustion
Selye’s three stages ____ a ____!
ARE; GAS
Under stress, people often provide support to others and bond with/seek support from others:
Tend and Befriend Response
______ or ______ towards a person, object, or animal:
Anger; Aggression
Direct anger towards osme other object:
Displaced aggression
Physical removal or psychologically escaping:
Escape
____-_____ behaviors:
Mood-Altering
The act of facing and dealing with problems and stressors, especially over the long term:
Coping
People who don’t cope well show:
______ signs (anxiety, depression, irritability, etc.)
______ signs (avoidance, self-destructive
behaviors, self-medicating)
_____-________ fear and attitudes
Emotional; Behavioral; Self-Defeating
Characteristics: competitive, impatient, verbally aggressive, talks quickly and interrupts often, easily angered, multi-taskers:
Type A Personality
_____ ___ personalities have a higher chance of having hypertension
and heart disease:
Type A
Characteristics: Easygoing, relaxed, “chill”:
Type B Personality
Study of how psychological, neural, and endocrine processes together affect the immune system and resulting health:
Psychoneuroimmunology
Fight bacteria infections:
B Lymphocytes
Attack cancer cells and viruses:
T Lymphocytes
Ingest foreign substances:
Macrophages
Who developed the Life Change Units (LCU)?
Thomas Holmes and Richard Rahe
Identifies many different life changes and has a number value to each level of stress the change would typically cause. The score represents the person’s overall stress level.
LCU, but it’s now called the Social Readjustment Rating Scale (SRRS)
Ways people go about their daily lives:
Lifestyle
Diseases related or caused by health-damaging personal habits (obesity, type 2 diabetes, smoking, alcoholism, drug
abuse):
Lifestyle Diseases
An anxiety disorder that can develop after exposure to a terrifying event or ordeal in which grave physical harm occurred or was threatened:
PTSD
What is the treatment for PTSD?
Exposure Therapy
