Unit 8B Flashcards
Response of the whole organism including physiological arousal, expressive behaviors, and conscious experience
Emotion
What are the three components of emotion?
Physiological arousal, expressive behaviors, consciously experienced thoughts
Experience of emotion is our awareness of physiological response and emotion arousing stimuli; physiology then feeling
James Lange theory
Emotion arousing stimulus simultaneously triggers physiological responses and subjective experience of emotion
Cannon Bard theory
To experience emotion, one must be physically aroused then cognitively label it
Schacter Singer/ two factor theory
Our arousal response to one event spills over in our response to the next event
Spillover effect
Device used to measure physiological responses
Polygraph
Holds negative emotions
Right hemisphere
Holds positive emotions
Left hemisphere
Being physically full
Satiety
Believe that cognition drives emotion (3)
Schacter, Singer, Lazarus
Believed that emotional reactions happen before interpretation
Robert, Zajonc, LeDoux
Explain the role in emotion and discuss how neurological processes may enable us to experience some emotions prior to conscious thought
Emotions arise from interpretations or interferences of a situation
Describe our ability to perceive and communicate emotions nonverbally
Experience could sensitize is to particular emotions
Researched micro-expressions
Paul woman
Name several basic emotions
Happy, sad, disgust, surprise, anger, fear
What are two dimensions psychologists use to differentiate emotions
Arousal, positive/negative
What are two ways we learn fear?
Observation, conditioning
What are some biological components of fear?
Biologically prepared to learn some fears
Releasing emotion; releasing aggressive energy relieves aggressive urges
Catharsis
What explains the relatively short duration of emotions?
Getting distracted or getting used to the situation
People tend to help when they are in a good mood
Feel-good, do-good phenomenon
Self perceived happiness or satisfaction with life
Well-being
Tendency to form judgements relative to a neutral level defined by our prior experience
Adaptation level phenomenon
Perception that we’re far worse off relative to those with whom we compare ourselves
Relative deprivation
We perceive and response to certain events that we appraise as threatening and challenging
Stress
Integrates behavioral and medical knowledge and applies that knowledge to health and disease
Behavioral medicine
Provide psychology’s contribution to behavioral medicine
Health psychology
What are the 3 phases of general adaptation syndrome?
Alarm reaction, resistance, exhaustion
Controls glands and muscles of internal organs
Autonomic nervous system
Arouses body
Sympathetic
Calms body
Parasympathetic
Concept of the body’s adaptive response to stress
General adaptation syndrome
Researched about stress; helped make stress a major concept in psychology and medicine
Hans Selye
Clogging of vessels that nourish the heart
Coronary heart disease
Competitive, hard-driving, impatient, verbally aggressive, anger prone people
Type A
Easygoing, relaxed people
Type B
Any stress related physical illness such as headaches and hypertension
Psychophysiological illness
Study of how psychological, neural, and endocrine processes together affect the immune system and resulting health
Psychoneuroimmunology
White blood cells in the immune system
Lymphocytes
Formed in bone marrow and release antibodies
B-lymphocytes
Formed in thymus and other lymphatic tissue and attack cancer cells, viruses, foreign substances
T-lymphocytes
