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AP Psychology- Emotions
2nd test
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Psychology
12th Grade
11/18/2010

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Oxytocin
Definition
-released by females during orgasm for pair bonding
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Stress/ fear motivation
Definition
we want to be with people through experiences
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Loneliness
Definition
discrepancy between the levels of contact someone wants to have and how much they actually have
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Disclosure
Definition
We share things with people we like, and we like peopl who share things with us
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Social Penetration theory
Definition
- go from superficial to meaningful disclosures
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Passion, Intimacy, Commitment
Definition
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Simlarity model
Definition
ideal mate= similar
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Equity model
Definition
ideal= person of comparable self worth
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Draft model
Definition
take whatever i can get
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Six basic emotion
Definition
fear, sadness, happiness, disgust, anger, surprise
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Limbic system
Definition
integration of hormonal and neural systems
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Amygdala
Definition
fear, even when unconscious of it
- attaching emotions to memory
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Hypothalamus
Definition
- nonconscious expression of emotion
- fight or flight
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Common Sense Theory
Definition
We percieve an emotion which causes a physical response
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James- Lange theory
Definition
we experience a physical response, which we then interpret as an emotion
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Canon- Bard theory
Definition
- we experience emotion and physical response simultaneously
- Cortex separately activates emotion and bodily reaction
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Shacter's Two Factor
Definition
we analyze an experience cognitively then we use that information with our physical response to produce an emotion
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Opponent Process thory
Definition
the presence of one emotion triggers its opposite
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Contagious emotions
Definition
serve the evolutionary function of helping form bonds
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Emotional Lateralization
Definition
- right brain corresponds more with negative emotions
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Kluver- Bucy syndrome
Definition
- loss of fear, overeating, hypersexuality
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Mutual beneficence
Definition
- over the long run, individuals must help eachother out
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Social Binding Drives
Definition
- evolutionarily built to work together
- propel us to be associated with eachother
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adaptation- level
Definition
- feedback loop of previous experience
- adapt to current position
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Relative- deprivation
Definition
- social comparisons govern emotions
- matter of perspective
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