PSY101 - Chapter 12: Emotion

Question 1

Emotion

Answer 1

A response of the whole organism, involving physiological arousal, expressive behaviors, and conscious experience.

Question 2

James-Lange Theory

Answer 2

The theory that our experience of emotion is our awareness of our physiological responses to emotion-arousing stimuli.

Question 3

Cannon-Bard Theory

Answer 3

The theory that an emotion-arousing stimulus simultaneously trigger physiological responses and the subjective experience of emotion.

Question 4

Two-Factor Theory

Answer 4

The Schachter-Singer theory that to experience emotion one must be physically aroused and cognitively label the arousal.

Question 5

Catharsis

Answer 5

Emotional release. In psychology, the catharsis hypothesis maintains that “releasing” aggressive energy (through action or fantasy) relieves aggressive urges.

Question 6

Feel-good, Do-good Phenomenon

Answer 6

People’s tendency to be helpful when already in a good mood.

Question 7

Subjective Well-being

Answer 7

Self-perceived happiness or satisfaction wit life. Used along with measure of objective well-being (for example, physical and economic indicators) to evaluate people’s quality of life.

Question 8

Adaptation-level Phenomenon

Answer 8

Our tendency to form judgments (of sounds, of lights, of income) relative to a neutral level defined by our prior experience.

Question 9

Relative Deprivation

Answer 9

The perception that one is worse off relative to those with whom one compares oneself.