Unit 7 40-43 Vocab

Question 1

Emotion

Answer 1

A response of the while organism, involving

1. Physiological arousal,
2. Expressive behavior, and
3. Conscious experience.

Question 2

James-Lange theory

Answer 2

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

Question 3

Cannon-Bard theory

Answer 3

The theory that an emotion-arousing stimulus simultaneously triggers.

1. Physiological responses and
2. The subjective experience of emotion.

Question 4

Facial feedback effect

Answer 4

The tendency of facial muscle states to trigger corresponding feeling such as fear, angry, or happiness.

Question 5

Health psychology

Answer 5

A subfield of psychology that provides psychology that provides psychology’s contribution to behavioral medicine.

Question 6

Stress

Answer 6

The process by which we perceive and respond to certain events, called stressors, that we appraise as threatening or challenging.

Question 7

General adaptation syndrome

Answer 7

Selye’s concept of the body’s adaptive responses to stress in three phases-alarm, resistance, exhaustion.

Question 8

Tend-and-befriend response

Answer 8

Under stress, people (especially women) often provide support to others (tend) and bond with and seek support from others (befriend).