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| What faces tend to pop out at us? |
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| -Angry faces pop out at us more than happy faces -Fear and Anger= Eyes... It is what shows their emotion -Happy= mouth shows the emotion |
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| hiding our emotions example |
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| EX: measure was what you remembered in details and the people who hid their emotions weren't able to remember the film as well |
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| Introverts are better at reading emotions |
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| Extroverts are easier to read. Show more emotions |
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| Women vs. Men reading emotions |
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| Women are better at reading emotions than men |
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Examples
•Nodding and shaking your head****
•In US mean yes and no and in Greece Bulgaria Turkey Iran they mean the opposite
•In Italy they put their finger in their cheek and whistle
•Crazy… in Argentina it means you have a call
•Ok sign
•Usually means a ok…. In Brazil it means lets have sex… Nixon did it |
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| Universal recognition of primary emotions |
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-Anger, sad, fear, disgust, surprise, interest, happy
-All people across the world know these emotions
-Blind children can still express appropriate emotions
-Crucial to communicate certain emotions |
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| Individualistic vs. Collectiveness |
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| -Asian cultures supress their emotions in public, more likely to display sympathy, respect, and shame; we in the United States are collective in which we express our emotions |
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| Unconsciously engage in motor mimicry; automatically imitate other's facial expressions, gestures, and posture |
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| People infer their attitudes or feelings from their behavior... example would be if you saw yourself smiling in a mirror you think that your happy |
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Experienced Emotions
-Fear |
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-Adaptive, alarm system that prepares body to fight or flight from danger
-Fear binds people together
-Fear after 9/11 made everyone pro-America
-Learn Fear; biological predisposed to fear something's |
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Experienced Emotions
-Anger*** |
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-Often anger is the result of perceived misdeeds from friends or loved ones or blameless annoyances
-Anger can prime prejudice; after 9/11 displayed intolerance for immigrants and Muslims
•Anger made people hate each other
-Chronic hostility is linked to heart disease
-Catharsis can have a temporary calming effect, typically though expressing anger just breeds more anger |
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Experienced Emotions
-Happiness |
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| -Feels good- do good phenomenon |
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-Knowledge of behavior and medicine is applied to health and disease; goal is to lessen suffering, increase life expectancy
-Combo of psychologists and physicians |
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-Psychology's contribution to behavioral medicine
-How do our emotions and personality influence our risk of disease?
-Can attitudes and behavior help prevent illness?
-How do our perceptions of a situation determine stress and how can we reduce or control stress? |
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-Process by which we appraise and cope with environmental threats and challenges; how we evaluate the situation
-EX: Evaluate a test as a stress and others don't think its stressful at all |
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-Threat or challenge; not always negative can motivate us to accomplish things
-EX: Getting married, football game |
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-Physical and emotional response
-EX: Crying when upset, biting nails during test |
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| Undergraduate Stress Scale |
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-Find stress rating
-12000 college students in eastern US
-Range= 182-2571 and mean 1247 |
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| Example: Test next week...we study to fight the stress of that test |
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| Example:Test next week.... some people just don't study or think about the test |
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-more common in women
-From an ancestral point of view doesn't make sense for women to fight a predator or flee with small children
-Stress situations women prefer to have others around and men prefer to be alone |
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Three Phases of General Adaptation Syndrome
-Alarm Reaction |
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-the stressor is at your door coming inside
-Sympathetic nervous system is activated;heart rate goes up, blood diverted to skeletal muscles |
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Three Phases of General Adaptation Syndrome
-Resistance |
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| -Temperature, blood pressure, and respiration remain high; if persists can deplete bodies resources |
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Three Phases of General Adaptation Syndrome
-Exhaustion |
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| -Vulnerable to illness,death; resources are depleted |
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| Prolonged stress can age you; Serious stress can age women |
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Three Main Types of Stressors
-Catastrophes |
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-Unpredictable large scale events
-Example:War, 9/11, Hurricane Katrina, Earthquake, all natural disasters |
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Three Main Types of Stressors
-Significant Life Changes |
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| -Examples: Marriage, breaking up with someone, maintaining a relationship, leaving home, the death of a loved one, loss of job, marriage or divorce |
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Three Main Types of Stressors
-Daily Hassles |
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Everyday annoyances
-Rush hour traffic, long lines, finding a parking place |
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Factors Related to Health
-Control |
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| if you feel you have control even if you don't it can reduce stress and make you healthier |
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Factors Related to Health
-Optimists |
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| Perceive more control, cope better with stressful events and enjoy better health |
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| Can stress be good for you? |
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-In small doses, YES!
-Help improve memory, type of challenge, improve heart functions and resist infection and short term protects against Alzheimer's |
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| closing vessels that nourish heart muscle; 1950's became leading cause of death |
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| hard-driving, competitive, impatient, and aggressive; accomplish too much in too little time; HOSTILITY is what causes them to be more likely to have coronary Heart Disease; more than twice as likely to have heart disease; respond to stress with more pronounced physical reactions; Work faster than type B's even when there is no deadline, often challenges, select more difficult tasks |
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| Relaxed, easy going, sociable; like being around others, enjoy working on teams; More likely to be in top management positions of companies |
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| 4th leading cause of death in the world; number 1 killer in Africa; reducing stress for HIV individuals can have powerful effect on prolonging their lives |
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| Similar findings that stress and negative emotions increase disease's progression |
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Coping with stress
- Aerobic Excercise |
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| releases endorphins in which makes you feel good |
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Social Support (Cohen)*******
Three Factors affect health
-Social Support |
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| gives advice and guidance with problems, and offers empathy caring and reassurance |
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Social Support (Cohen)*******
Three Factors affect health
-Social Integration |
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| a sense of belonging, purpose, and identification; people with social connectedness tend to live longer |
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Social Support (Cohen)*******
Three Factors affect health
-Negative Interactions |
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| can cause stress and disease; get out of these relationships |
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| have a calming effect on people in which it relaxes them and relieves stress |
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| Journal Study in which people who wrote in a journal got sick less; relieving your emotions tends to keep people more healthy |
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| people who gaze into other people's eyes have stronger attraction to one another |
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| Awareness of ourselves and our environment, William James believed that consciousness was necessary to human survival. Example, like knowing something made us sick in the past, we will not eat it again. |
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| Periodic, natural, reversible loss of consciousness |
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| Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) |
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| in places where there is not a lot of sun, people experience this, they are depressed and stuff. There are machines that can try and help this. |
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| female menstrual cycle- fluctuating moods |
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| how long it takes you to move through the stages of sleep |
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