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Chapter 13
EMOTION
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Psychology
11th Grade
05/03/2010

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Emotion
Definition
a response of the whole organiam, involving psychological arousal, expressive behaviors, and sonscious experience
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James-Lange Theory
Definition
the theory that our experience of emotion is our awareness of our psychological repsonses to emotion-arousing stimuli
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Cannon-Bard Theory
Definition
that emotion arousing stimulus simutaneously triggers psych repsonse and the subjective experience of emotion
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two-factor theory
Definition
to experience emotion one must, 1.be phsyically aroused and 2. cognitivly label the arousal
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Catharsis
Definition
emotional release
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feel-good, do-good phenomenon
Definition
people's tendency to be helpful when already in a good mood
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subjective well-being
Definition
self-precieved happiness or satisfaction with life
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Adaptation-Level Phenomenon
Definition
our tendency to form judgements relative to a netural level defined by our prior experience
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Relative Depreivation
Definition
the perception that one os worse off relative to those whom one compares oneself
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Polygraph
Definition
a machine, commonly used in attempts to detect lies
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