Motivation And Emotion Flashcards
A response of the whole organism involving one Physiological arousal, to expressive behaviors, and three conscious experience
Emotion
The theory that our experience of emotion is our awareness of our physiological responses to emotion-arousing stimuli
James-Lange theory
The theory that the motion-arousing stimulus simultaneously triggers one physiological responses into the subjective experience of emotion
Canon-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 attempt to detect lies, that measures several of the physiological responses accompanying emotion
Poly graph
The effect of facial expressions on experience emotions, as when a facial expression of anger or happiness intensifies feelings of anger or happiness
Facial feedback
Emotional release. The catharsis hypothesis maintains the releasing aggressive energy
Catharsis
People’s tendency to be helpful when In already in a good mood
Feel good, do good phenomenon
Self perceived happiness or satisfaction with life. Used along with measures of objective well-being to evaluate people’s quality of life
Well-being
Our tendency to form judgments 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 that knowledge to health and disease
Behavioral medicine
The process by which we perceive and respond to certain events
Stress
Selye’s concept of the bodies adaptive response to stress in three phases-alarm, resistance, and exhaustion
General adaptation syndrome GAS
The clogging of the vessels that nourish the heart muscle; leading cause of death in North America
Coronary heart disease
