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| The experience of felling or emotion |
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| Our experiences of te bodily responses created by the sympathetic division of the autonomic nervous system. |
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| A mental and physiological feeling state that directs our attention and guides our behavior. |
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| A driving force that initiates and directs behavior. |
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| The emotions of anger, disgust, fear, happiness, sadness, and surprise. |
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| The cognitive interpretations that accompany emotions. |
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| Cannon-Bard theory of emotion |
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| The idea that the experience of emotion is accompanied by physiological arousal. |
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| James-Lange theory of emotion |
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| the idea that the experience of emotion is the result of the arousal that we experience. |
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| Two-factor theory of emotions |
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The idea that the strength of emotion is determined by the intesity of the arousal we are experiencing, but that the cognitive appraisal of the situation determines what the emotion will be.
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| Misattribution of arousal |
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| When we incorrectly label the soure of the arousal we are experiencing. |
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| Communication, primarily of liking or disliking, that does not involve words. |
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| Facial feedback hypthesis |
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| The idea that the movement of our facial muscles can trigger corresponding emotions. |
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| Physiological responses that occur when an organism fails to respond appropriately to emotional or physical threats. |
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| Post traumatic stress disorder (PTD) |
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| A medical syndrome that includes symptomes of anxiety, sleeplessness, nightmares, and social withdrawal. |
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| General adaptation syndrome |
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| The distinct phases of physiological change that occur in response to long-term stress: alarm, resistance, and exhaustion. |
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| A physiological response to stress involving interactions among the hypothalamus, the pituitary, and the adrenal glands. |
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| A stress hormone that releases sugars into the blood, helping prepare the body to respond to threat. |
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| Our everyday negative interactions with the environment |
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| An emotiona and behavioral reaction to stress that increases the readiness for action. |
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| Tend-and-befriend response |
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| A behavioral reaction to stress that involes activities desinged to create social networks that provide protection from threats. |
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| the ability to successfuly control our emotions. |
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| the gernal tendecy to expect positive outcomes |
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| the belief in our ability to carry out actions that produce desired outcomes. |
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| The experience ofh aving positive and supportive social relationships with others. |
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| The amount of energy expended while at rest, which influences one's weight. |
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| an eating disorder characterized by extremely low body weight, distorted body image, and an obsessive fear of gaining weight. |
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| An eating disorder characterized by binge eating followed by purging. |
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| A medical condition in which so much excess body fat has accumulated in the body that it begins to have an adverse impact on health. |
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| The biological sexual response in humans |
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| The direction of our sexual desire, toward people of the ooposite sex, people of the same sex, or people of both sexes. |
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