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emotion
a response of the whole organism involving (1) physiological arousal (2) expressive behavior and (3) conscious experience
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James-Lange Theory
our experience of emotion is our awareness of our physiological response to emotion arousing stimulti
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Cannon-Bard Theory
an emotion arousing stimulus simultaneously triggers (1) physiological responses and (2) the subjective experience of emotion
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two-factor theory
the schachter-singer theory that to experience emotion one must (1) be physically aroused and (2) cognitively label the arousal
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polygraph
a machine, commonly used in attempts to detect lies, that measures several of the physiological responses accompanying emotion (perspiration etc)
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facial feedback
the effect of facial expressions on experienced emotions, as when a facial expression of anger or happiness intensifies feelings of anger or happiness
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catharsis
emotional release. The Catharsis hypothesis maintains that "releasing" aggressive energy (though action or fantasy) relieves aggressive urges
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feel-good, do-good phenomenon
people's tendency to be helpful when already in a good mood
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well-being
self-percieved happiness or satisfaction with life. used along with measures of objective well being (for example physical and economic indicators) to evaluate people quality of life
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adaptive-level phenomenon
our tendency to form judgments (of sounds, of lights, of income) relative to a neutral level defined by our prior experience
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relative deprivation
the perception that we are worse off relative to those with whom we compare ourselves
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behavioral medicine
an interdicipinary field that integrates behavioral and medical knowledge and applies that knowledge to health and disease
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health psychology
a subfield of psychology that provides psychology's contribution to behavioral medicine
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stress
the process by which we percieve and respond to certain events, called stressors, that we appraise as threatening or challegenging
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general adaptation syndrome (GAS)
Selye's concept of the body's adaptive response to stress in 3 phases- alarm, resistance, exhaustion
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Type A
Friedman and Rosenman's term for competitive, hard-driving, impatient, verbally aggressive and anger-prone people
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Type B
Friedman and Rosenman's term for easy going, relaxed people
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psychoneuroimmunology (PNI)
the study of how psychological, neural and endocrine processed together affect the immune system and resulting health
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lymphocytes
the 2 types of white blood cells that are part of the body's immune system. B lymphocytes form in the bone marrow and release antibodies that fight bacterial infections; T lymphocytes form in the thymus and other lymphatic tissue and attack cancer cells, viruses and foreign substances
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