Mini Chap 11 Flashcards
Affective forecasting
Ability to predict our own and others happiness
Anorexia nerves a
Eating disorder assosciated with excessive weight loss and irrational perception that one is overweight
Broaden and build theory
Theory proposing that happiness predisposes us to think more openly
Bulimia nervosa
Eating disorder assosciated with pattern of binging and purging in an effort to lose or maintain weight
Cannon bard theory
Theory p[roposing that an emotion provoking event leads simultaneously to an emotion and to bodily reactions
Cognitive theories of emotion
Theories proposing that emotions are products of thinking
Defensive pessimism
Strategy of anticipating failure and compensating for this expectation by mentally overpreparing for negative outcomes
Discrete emotions theory
Theory that humans experience a small number of distinct emotions that are rooted in our biology
Display rules
Cross cultural guidelines for how and when to express emotions
Drive reduction theory
Theory proposing that certain drives like hunger thirst and sex motivate us to act in ways that minimize aversive states
Emotion
Mental states or feeling assosciated with our evaluation of experiences
Excitement phase
Phases in human sexual response in which people experience sexual pleasure and notice physiological changes associated with it
Facial feedback hypothesis
Theory that blood vessels in the face feedback temperature information in the brain altering our experience of emotions
Glucostatic theory
Theory that when our blood glucose levels drop, hunger creates a drive to eat to restore the proper level of glucose
Guilty knowledge test
Alternative to the polygraph test that relies on the premise that criminals harbour concealed knowledge about the crime that innocent people do
Hedonic treadmill
Tendency for our moods to adapt to external circumstances
Hierarchy of needs
Medol developed by Abraham Maslow, proposing that we must satisfy physiological needs and needs for safety and security before progressing to more complex needs
Incentive theories
Theories proposing that were often motivated by positive goals
Integrity test
Questionnaire that presumably assess workers tendency to steal or cheat
Internal external theory
Theory proposing that obese people ar motivated to eat more by external cues than internal cues
James Lange theory of emotion
Theory proposing that emotions from our interpretations of out bodily reactions to stimuli
Lepton
Hormone that signals the hypothalamus and brain stem to reduce appetite and increase amount of energy used
Motivation
Psychological drives that propel us in a specific direction
nonverbal leakage
Unconscious spillover of emotions into nonverbal behaviour
Orgasm phase
Phase in human sexual response marked by involuntary rhythmic contractions in muscles of gene tiles
Pinocchio response
Supposedly perfect physiological or behaviour indicator of lying
Plateau phase
Phase in human sexual response in which sexual tension builds
Positive psychology
Discipline that has sough to emphasize human strengths
Positivity effect
Tendency for people to remember more positive than negative information with age
Primary emotions
Small number of emotions believed by some theorists to be cross culturally universal
Proxemics
Study of personal space
Proximity
Physical nearness
-predictor of attraction
Reciprocity
Rule of give and take, predictor of attraction
Resolution phase
Phase in human sexual response following orgasm in which people report relaxation and sense of well being
Set point
Value that establishes a range of body and muscle mass that we tend to maintain
Similarity
Extend to which we ave things in common with others
-predictor of attraction
Somatic marker theory
Theory proposing that we use our gut reactions to help us determine how we should act
Two factor theory
Theory proposing that emotions are produced by an undifferentiated state of arousal along with an attribution of the arousal
Yerkes Dodson law
Inverted U shaped relation between arousal on the one hand and mood and performance on the other hand
