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PSYC100 Exam 2 Ch13
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Psychology
Undergraduate 1
04/05/2010

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self-report
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a verbal statement by the person of what she is feeling
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self-monitoring
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to monitor and record their own behavior over a period of time.
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direct observation
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techniques is to provide an objective, reliable measurement of specific overt behaviors associated with particular emotions.
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primary emotions
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basic feelings states that have evolved ove ther centuries because they are adaptive.
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facial feedback theory
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suggests that there are only nine basic, inborn emotions, each activated by specific environmental stimuli and the facial expressions they trigger.
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Activators
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stimuli or situations that may, on the basis of learning, cuase an emotion to be expressed
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Languages of emotion
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Subjective, behavioral, and functional
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psychobiological theory
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of emotional functioning, which suggests that basic emotions are related to specific neural circuits.
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cognitive-labeling theory
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Schachter stimulus --> physiological response --> felt emotion.
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misattribution theory
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suggests that the particular emotion an individual experiences is a function of labeling process.
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transfer of excitation
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arousal generated by crossing the swaying bridge transers to the interaction with the femail experiementer to highten sexual arousal.
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cognitive appraisal
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consists of evaluating the significance of the cognitive antecedents of the emotion, not the content of the emotion itself.
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Patterned somatic reactions
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physiological responses that accompany and are a part of the overall emotional experience.
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Greatest happiness Principle
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actiona are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness, wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness.
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adaptation lvl
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current, neutral lvl of functioning relatie to some specific stimulus situation.
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opponent-process theory
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suggests that emotions balance toward a neutral point not only in th elong run bu also in the shrot run. an emotion causes an opposite emotion to occur.
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parasympathetic nervous system
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dominant deuring periods of relazation and acts primarily to conserve and store energy
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amygdala
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improtant in emotion and influences anger/aggression and fear
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