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| theory that humans experience a small number of distinct emotions |
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| small number (perhaps seven) of emotions believed by some theorists to be cross-culturally universal |
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| motivation structural rule |
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| deep seated similarities in communication across most animal species |
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| cross cultural guidelines for how and when to express emotions |
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| cognitive theories of emotion |
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| theory proposing that emotions are products of thinking |
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| James-Lange theory of emotion |
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| theory proposing that emotions result from our interpretations of our bodily reactins to stimuli |
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| theory proposing that we use our gut reactions to help us determine how we should act |
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| theory propising that an emotion provoking event leads simultaneously to an emotion and to bodily reactions |
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| theory proposing that emotions are produced by an undifferentiated state of arousal along with an attribution of that arousal |
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| facial feedback hypothesis |
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| theory that blood vessels in the face feed back temperature information in the brain, altering our experience of emotions |
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| unconscious spillover of emotions into nonverbal behaviour |
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| supposedly perfect physiological or behavioural indicator of lying |
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| alternative to the polygraph test that relies on the premise that criminals harbour concealed knowledge about the crime that innocent people don't |
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| questionnaires that presumably assess workers tendency to steal or cheat |
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| discipline that has sought to emphasize human strengths |
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| theory proposing that happiness predisposes us to think more openly |
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| tendency for people to remember more positive than negative information with age |
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| ability to predict our own and others happiness |
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| belief that both our good and bad moods will last longer than they do |
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| tendency for our moods to adapt to external circumstances |
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| tendencies to perceive ourselves more positively than others do |
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| strategy of anticipating failure and then compensating for this expectation by mentally overpreparing for negative outcomes |
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| psychological drives that propel us in a specific direction |
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| theory proposing that certain drives like hunger, thirst and sexual frustration motivate use to act in ways that minimize aversive states |
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| inverted u shaped relation between arousal on the one hand and affect and performance on the other |
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| theories proposing that we're often motivated by positive goals |
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| a model developed by Abraham maslow proposing that we must satisfu physiological needs and needs for safety and security before progressing to more complex needs |
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| theory that when our blood glucose levels drop, hunger creates a drive to eat to restore the proper level of glucose |
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| hormone that signlas the hypothalamus and brain stem to reduce appetite and increase the amount of energy used |
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| value that establishes a range of body and muscle mass we tend to maintain |
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| theory holding that obese people are motivated to eat more by external cues than internal cues |
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| phase in human sexual response triggered by whatever propts sexual interest |
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| phase in human sexual response in which people experience sexual pleasure and notice physiological changes associated with it |
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| physical nearness, a predictor of attraction |
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| extent to which we have things in common with others, a predictor of attraction |
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| fact that our friends prop up our sense of self or the social roles we play |
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| rule of give and take, a predictor of attraction |
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| love marked by powerful, even overwhelming, longing for one's partner |
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