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| universitality hypothesis |
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| stimulus --> label --> feelings, behaviour |
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| motions are extracted from our evaluations (appraisals) of events that cause specific reactions in different people. |
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| Prior exposure to a stimulus primes (prepares)us to react in a certain way to that stimulus in the future |
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| stimuli --> thalamus --> amygdala --> cortex |
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| stimuli --> thalamus --> cortex --> amydala |
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| facial feedback hypothesis and facial expression |
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if a person who makes a certain facial expression will feel the corresponding emotion
As long as the person is not feeling some other competing emotion. |
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| intensification, deintensification, masking, neutralizing |
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| mood congruent processing |
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| We selectively process information that is congruent (the same as) the emotional state we are in |
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| The use cognitive strategies to control and influence our emotional responses |
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| Imagining how we might feel about a future event |
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| A person should express emotions, such as anger, to prevent them from building up and exploding |
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| Is the psychological (behavioral) aspect of behavioral medicine |
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| event that causes the response |
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| A temporary state of stress that varies in intensity |
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| Long-lasting state of arousal |
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| Is positive type of stress that helps a person perform a task or achieve a goal |
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| A negative type of stress where we perceive challenges as obstacles we cannot overcome |
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| stimuli --> resistance (cope with stressor) --> exhaustion |
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| alternate stress reactions |
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-withdrawal
-tend and befriend |
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| These are unpredictable, large-scale event that can lead to significant levels of problematic stress |
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| Is a state of physical, emotional, and mental exhaustion created by long-term involvement in an emotionally demanding situation |
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| Minor nuisances that, when combined with other small problems, can create a stressful environment. |
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| These are formed in the marrow of bones |
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| These are formed in your lymphatic tissue and in the thymus organ located in your chest |
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| Have physical explanations and are made worse by the presence of psychological stress. |
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| You stress about developing a serious illness |
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| The presence of multiple physical complaints all occurring simultaneously, each with no identifiable physical explanation |
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| A sudden, temporary loss of a sensory or motor function. |
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cognitive approach
behavioural approach
emotional approach |
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| taking time to evaluate stressful event |
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| Facing a stressor directly and working to overcome it |
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| Foresee stressors before they occur or before they get too serious |
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| Attempting to reduce stress directly |
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| A therapeutic technique that involves alternately tensing and relaxing muscles in the body and practicing breathing exercises in order to relieve tension. |
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| concious, unconcious, approach, and avoidance |
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A person reacts when a physiological need creates an aroused state that drives him or her to reduce the need
need --> drive --> drive reducing |
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intrinsic reward
extrinsic reward
Wanting and liking
Reinforcement
Reward neurons
Medial forebrain bundle
Liking systems
Endorphins
Wanting systems |
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Is an arousal state in which a person has enough motivation but not so much that he or she feels anxious and unable to perform.
yerkes-dodson |
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| Workers decide how satisfied they feel with their jobs by comparing themselves to others. |
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| Defines job satisfaction as a worker’s sense of achieving a certain outcome based on expectancy, instrumentality, and valence. |
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Concerned with the individual elements of consciousness (perceptions, emotions, memories) and how they can be combined and integrated to give rise to the human experience
titchner |
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How mental and behavioral processes enable the organism to adapt, survive, and flourish
(james) |
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Emphasized the wholeness and organized structure of every psychological, physiological, and behavioral experience
(wertheimer) |
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Human beings are motivated primarily by sexual drives, forbidden desires, and traumatic childhood memories.
(freud) |
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focused on how behaviors are learned and modified (individuals are entirely shaped, or conditioned, by their experiences)
(watson) |
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| Focuses on the workings of the human brain and looks to understand how we process the information we collect from our environment |
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| Concerned with the evolutionary origins of behaviors and mental processes, their adaptive value, and the purpose they continue to serve |
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