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| A response, involving 1.) physiological arousal 2.) expressive behavior and 3.) conscious experience. |
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| 2 Controversies of Emotion |
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1.) Does physiological arousal precede or follow emotional experience?
2.) Does cognition always precede emotion?
(Answered by the James-Lange Theory, the Cannon-Bard theory, and Two-Factor Theory. |
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| A theory that tries to answer the question, does cognition always precede emotion? It states that |
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| A theory that tries to answer the question, does cognition always precede emotion? The theory states that physiological arousal and emotion happen at the same time. |
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| Two-Factor Theory (Schachter-Singer) |
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| A theory that tries to answer the question, does cognition always precede emotion? The theory states that to experienced emotion you need to 1.) be physically aroused and 2.) cognitively label arousal. |
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| A lie detector that measures physical responses to emotion. However, it can be unreliable because many emotions have similar responses. The machine makes errors one-third of the time. The guilty knowledge test is more reliable. |
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| A lie detection technique that measures people response to information that only they could know. For example, in a criminal investigation, they test possible suspects reactions to evidence only known by the criminal and the police. |
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| Schachter and Singer experimented on several subjects by injecting them with epinephrine and then exposed them to either very happy or very angry people. Subjects who knew the effects of epinephrine attributed their increase in emotion to the injection, but those who thought the injection was a placebo picked up the observed emotion. This emotion transfer is the effect. |
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| "Faking" a smile can subtly make you feel happy. This effect is called ______. |
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| Carrol Izard's 10 basic emotions |
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| Joy, Interest/Excitement, Surprise, Sadness, Anger, Disgust, Contempt, Fear, Shame, Guilt. |
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| An emotional release that releases aggressive energy (action or fantasy) that relieves aggressive urges. Psychologists now say this isn't an effective way of relieving aggressive urges. It will only create a habit of aggressive behavior. |
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| Feel-Good, Do-Good Phenomenon |
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| The effect where helping others can make you feel happy. |
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| Self-perceived happiness/satisfaction with life. The evaluation of peoples quality of life. |
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| Adaption-Level Phenomenon |
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| Forming judgements based on previous experiences. |
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| Comparing your own happiness with the happiness of others to determine your own satisfaction with life. |
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| The process where we perceive and respond to events, called stressors, that we appraise as threatening/challenging. |
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| What did Walter Cannon first conclude about stress? |
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| That it is a mind/body system. |
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| Hans Selye (What stress theory?) |
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| General Adaption Syndrome |
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| General Adaption Syndrome |
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| The body's reaction to stress has three states: alarm, resistance, and exhaustion. |
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| Phase 1 of the body's reaction to stress. The SNS suddenly reacts by increases the heart's rate, and preparing the body for fight or flight. Shock can occur in this stage. |
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| Phase 2 of the body's reaction to stress. The SNS continues to elevate body reactions (like heart rate)and hormones are suddenly released. The body's reserves can get used up at this point prompting the next phase. |
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| Phase 3 (final) of the body's reaction to stress. The body is vulnerable to illness, collapse, and depth because the body's reserves have been used up. |
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| An unpredictable large-scale event, such as war or a natural disaster. |
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| Catastrophe, Significan life change, and daily hassles. |
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| A stressor that involves leaving home, death in the family, or the loss of one's job (among other things). |
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| Every day negative events that add up to stress. (This is the leading stressor). Enough of this kind of stress can lead to health problems and many other negative side effects. |
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| A disease that clogs heart vessels that nourish the heart. It can lead to death. |
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| Friedman and Rosenman's Stress Experiment |
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| Two experimenters interviewed 3,000 healthy men and measured their reactions to negative stimulation. They labeled men who were easily angered as Type A and men who were easygoing as Type B. They found that Type A men were much more likely to suffer from heart-related illnesses and depression. |
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| In Friedman and Rosenman's experiment, these type of men were easily angered and were more at risk of heart-related disease and depression. |
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| In Friedman and Rosenman's experiment, these type of men were easygoing and less at risk of heart-related disease and depression. |
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| Psychophysiological Illness |
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| Any stress-related physical illness i.e.. hypertension and headaches. |
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| Psychoneuroimmunology (PNI) |
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| The study of how psychology, neurology, and endocrine processes affects the immune system. |
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| What are the two types of white blood cells (lymphocytes) called? |
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| Lymphocytes: B lymphocytes and T lymphocytes |
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| The two types of white blood cells subdivided into B lymphocytes and t lymphocytes. |
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| These lymphocytes (white blood cells) form bone marrow and release antibodies to fight infections. |
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| These lymphocytes (white blood cells) form the thymus and other lymphatic tissue to attack cancer cells, viruses, and foreign substances. (They don't always attack "bad" cells.) |
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| Cells of the immune system (NOT lymphocytes) that identifies, pursues, and eats harmful invaders and dead cells. They are called the "Big Eaters." |
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| Natural Killer Cells (NK cells) |
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| These cells of the immune system attack disease cells. |
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| Thinking you have control of a situation can decrease the stress of that situation. |
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| A system for electronically recording, amplifying, and feeding back information about your physiological state (muscle tension, blood pressure, etc.) |
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