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| states that emotional experiences are based on the awareness of the body's responses to emotional arousing stimuli: a stimulus triggers the body's responses that in turn trigger the experienced emotion. (p514) |
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| states that the subjective experience of an emotion occurs at the same time as the body's physical reaction.(p514) |
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| Schacter-Singer's theory that to experience emotion one must(1) be physically aroused and (2) cognitively label the arousal. (p515) |
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| is a emotional release, according to the catharsis hypothesis, by expressing our anger, we can reduce it. |
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| is a response of the whole organism involving three components: (1) physical arousal, (2) expressive behaviors and (3) conscious experience. (p 514) |
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| The Feel Good do good phenomenon |
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| is the tendency of people to be helpful when they are in a good mood. |
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| refers to a person's sense of satisfaction with his or her life. |
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| The adaptation level phenomenon |
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| refers to our tendency to judge things relative to our prior experience |
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| The principle of relative deprivation |
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| is the perception that we are worse off relative to those with whom we compare ourselves. |
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| occurs when the arousal from one event influences our response to another event. |
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| Name three emotions that involve similar physiological arousal? |
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| fear, anger, and sexual arousal |
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| Two alternative pathways that stimuli may travel when triggering an emotional response. |
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| (11) when sensory imput goes directly to the amygdala via the thalamus, bypassing the cortex. It triggers an immediate emotional response that may be outside our awareness. (2) Responses to complex emotions (such as guilt, happiness, love) require interpretation and are routed along the slower route to the cortex for analysis. |
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| Relationship between arousal and performance |
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| Very high or very low arousal can be disruptive. We perform best when arousal is moderate, tjough it varies with the difficulty of the task. |
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