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| a disorder involving a lack of the subjextive expirience of emotion |
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| an eating disorder characterized by an excessive fear of becoming fat and refusal to eat |
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| a ration of body weight to height used to measure obesity |
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| the idea that other peopel can provide direct supportin helping individuals cope with stressful events |
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| eating disorder characterized by dieting, binge eating, and purging |
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| Canon-bard theory of emotion |
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| emotion producing stimuli from the environment elicit both an emotional and physical reaction |
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| an emotional pattern associated with unequal activation of the left and right frontal lobes |
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| an approach to understanding emotion in which two basic factors of emotion are spatially arranged in a circle, formed around the intersections of the core dimensions of affect |
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| any response an organism makes to avoid, escape from, or minimize an aversive stimulus |
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| Cultural rules that govern how and when emotions are exhibited |
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| feelings that involve subjective evaluation, phyiological propcesses and cognitive beliefs |
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| a type of coping in which people try to prevent having an emoitonal response to a stressor |
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| a form of misattribution in which residual physiologiccal arousal caused by one event is transferred to a new stimulus |
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| facial feedback hypothesis |
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| the idea that facial expressions trigger the experience of emotion |
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| the physiological preparedness of animals to deal with danger |
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| general adaptation syndrome |
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| a consistant pattern of responses to stress that consists of three stages: alarm, resistance, and exhaustion |
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| a negative emotional state associated with an internal experience of anxiety, tension, and agitation, in which a person feels responsible for causing an adverse state |
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| a personality trait that enables people to perceive stressors as controllable challenges |
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| the field of psychological science concerned with the events that affect physical well-being |
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the body's mechanism for dealing with invading microorganisms, such as allergens, bacteria, and viruses |
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| James-Lange theory of emotion |
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| a theory that suggests that the experience of emotion is elicited by a physiological response to a particular stimulus or situation |
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| specialized white blood cells known as, B cells, T cells and natural killer cells that make up the immune system |
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| a diffuse and long-lasting emotional state that influences rather than interrupts thought and behavior |
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| cognitive process in which people focus possibe good things in their current situation |
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| part of the coping process that involves making decisions about whether a stimulus is stressful, benign, or irrelevant |
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| evolutionary adaptive emotions that humans share across cultures; they are associated with specific biological and physical states |
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| evolutionary adaptive emotions that humans share across cultures; they are associated with specific bioligical and physical states |
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| a type of coping in which people take direct steps to confrront or minimize a stressor |
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| thinking about, elaborating, and focusing on undesired thoughts or feelings, which prolongs, rather than alleviates, a negative mood |
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| part of the coping process during which people evaluate their options and choose coping behaviors |
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| blends of primary emotions, including states such as remorse, guilt, submission, and anticipation |
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| a network of other peopole who can provide help, encouragement and advice |
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| bodily reactions that arise from the emotional evaluation of an actions consequences |
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| a pattern of behavioral and physiological responses to events that match or exceed an organsims abilities |
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| an event or stimulus that threatens an organism |
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| tend-and-befriend response |
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| the argument that females are more likely to protect, and care for their offspring and form social alliances that flee or fight in response to threat |
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| two factor theory of emotion |
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| a theory that a situation evokes both a physiological response, such as arousal, and a cognitive interpretation |
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| a pattern of behavior characterized by competitiveness, achievement oritenation, aggresiveness, hostility, restlessness, inability to relax, and impatience with others |
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| Type B behavioral pattern |
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| a pattern of behavior characterized by relaxed, noncompetative, easygoing, and accommodative behavior |
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