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| physiological response (heart pounding) THEN it triggers your emotional response (fear) |
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| Physiological arousal and Emotional response occurs simultaneously. The emotional-stimulus alerts the brain cortex (emotion) and sympathetic nervous system (physiological arousal) at the same time. |
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| mobilizes your body for action and calms it when the crisis passes. Two parts: sympathetic and parasympathetic |
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| We have many emotional reactions are apart from or even before our interpretations of the situation. Cognition is not necessary for emotion |
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| Test that assesses a suspect's knowledge of details of a crime that only a guilty person would know |
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| Says emotions require cognitive processing otherwise how do we know what were reacting to? they arise when we appraise an event as beneficial or harmful to our well-being. Our brain processes loads without conscious awareness |
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| Competitive, motivated, aggressive, anger-prone, more likely to experience atherosclerosis |
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| Bone marrow and release antibodies to fight bacterial infections |
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| Cancer-producing substances such as smoking, radioactive material, etc |
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| Formed in the thymus and other tissues, attack cancer cells, viruses, and foreign substances (even good ones such as transplanted organs) |
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| Behavior/facial feedback effect |
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| Imitating behavior helps us to empathize. e.g: smiling makes us feel happy or when people wrinkle their nose in disgust at a food they are likely to experience an increasingly intense emotional aversion to the food |
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| Relative deprivation principle |
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| the sense that we are worse off than others |
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| Stressed monkeys had suppressed production of lymphocytes |
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| Ignoring a stressor and attending to ones emotional needs relating to ones stress reaction |
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| Becoming aware of physiological functions using instruments that provide info |
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| The false belief that aggressive actions provide an emotional release |
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| Adaption level phenomenon |
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| describes our tendency to judge various stimuli relative to those we have previously experienced. we adjust our neutral level. E.g. if you always get A's a A won't be as good as if you always fail. Happiness is something better than were used to |
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| In times of stress outer part of adrenal gland secrete this |
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| Schacter-Singer 2 factor theory |
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| Our physiological (arousal) and cognitive labels ("i'm afraid") together CREATE emotion (fear) |
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| Directs adrenal glands to release stress hormones (epinephrine and norepinephrine) Pupils dilate, decreases saliva, sweats, increases respiration, inhibits digestion, etc |
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| Calms your body after a crisis by inhibiting further release of stress hormones |
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| Similar physiological reactions are associated with a variety of different emotions therefore you can't tell your emotion from the bodily reaction. |
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| Mental evaluations, i.e. whether we feel angry or depressed in response to a low exam grade depends on whether we attribute the poor grade to an unfair test or to our own lack of academic ability. |
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| Physiological arousal, evolutionary adaptiveness, brain pathways, and spillover effect |
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| Psychological influencing |
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| Cognitive labeling, gender differences |
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| Socio-cultural influences |
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| Expressiveness, presence of others, and cultural expectations |
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| Plays a key role in associating various emotions with certain situations |
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| Fast system (Catecholamine system) |
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| Guided by the hypothalamus the neurons from the sympathetic ganglia stimulate the inner part of adrenal glands (adrenal medulla), which causes it to secrete norepinephrine and epinephrine, together these hormones are called catecholamine system. Initial response to "fight or flight system" |
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| Slow system (Glucocorticoid system) |
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| When cerebral cortex perceives a threat the hypothalamus stimulates the pituitary gland to release ACTH into the bloodstream once it reaches the outer part of adrenal gland (adrenal cortex) it releases cortisol releasing glucose into the blood stream. Converts protein to glucose and speeds up the release of stored fat to be burned as fuel. |
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| General adaptation syndrome |
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| short term and long term reactions to stress |
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| Perceives stressor: flight-or-flight, stress hormones flood the blood stream |
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| Attempts to return to homeostasis |
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| Energy is depleted, long-term-stress |
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| Right frontal lobe associated with |
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| Self-perceived happiness or satisfaction with life, used to measure quality of life. High ratio of positive to negative feelings |
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| Sense that were worse off than others |
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| Focuses on our inner capacities for growth and self-fulfilment |
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| Nervous disorders and things that make no neurological sense |
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| operates on immediate pleasure |
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| contemplates between id and superego, it is the realistic one |
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| oral, anal, phallic, latency, genital: OAPLG |
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| Children repress being threatened by their rival parent and begin identifying with them and trying to be like them. |
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| How people's thoughts and behavior affect their health and disease. E.g. how drug abuse utilizes biofeedback |
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| We feel happier with happy people |
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| disguises threatening impulses by attributing them to others. liking someone and saying they like you |
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| Clogging of the vessels that nourish the heart muscle; the leading cause of death in developed countries |
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| the ego unconsciously makes unacceptable impulses look like their opposites. Acting like a homophobic because your gay |
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| Cancer producing substances |
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| Directly confront the problem |
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| Complementary and alternative medicine |
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| unproven health care treatments |
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| social cognitive perspective: emphasizes interaction of people with our situations, what we think effects our behavior, focus on how we and our environment interact. recipricol determinism |
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| Cultural differences in emotion |
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| The amount of emotion people expressed |
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| Low road is Stimulus → Thalamus → Amygdala → Fear, whereas the high road goes from the amygdala to cortex to fear. One is processed quicker, things such as anger are processed on the low road from an adaptive perspective in order to react quickly. pick out the angry face in the list of happy experiment |
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| Smile and you will be happy, make a face and the emotion will follow |
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| When someone wrongs you it shows how much THEY value THEIR welfare relative to YOURS, thus anger serves to adjust that ratio. Anger pays b/c it affects their future behavior |
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| Changes the mind of a specific person: towards a friend it helps maintain cooperation |
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| All behavior is to increase personal happiness |
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| Does it potentially impact my well-being? Is it a threat? |
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| Can I control it? Determines fight or flight |
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| Body is energized by the sympathetic nervous system, intense, unsustainable, fight-or-flight |
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| More aroused than normal, can be sustained at a cost |
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| Post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) |
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| Hypervigilent (naturally tense), jumpy, easily startled, nightmares of the event, 20% of vietnam veterans experienced this |
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| Mechanism that shuts down fear response doesn't work, therefore even small fear stimulus leads to terror. Might be b/c his terrifying experiences have altered the hippocampus to make long ago memories dominate his thinking |
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| Part of brain responsible for instantaneous fear response |
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| Flashes of truth that break through a liars face for a mili-second |
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| Consumes and ingests foreign substances |
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| Stress diverts energy from the immune system to the brain, suppressing lymphocyte cells and making us more susceptible to disease |
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| A person is especially vulnerable to diseases |
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| Genuine illnesses caused by stress |
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