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| The process by which we appraise and cope with environmental threats and challenges. |
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| Traumatic experiences from past that continue to affect the person emotionally |
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No end in sight.
Ex: Long-term unemployment, health problems, college |
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Does have an end in sight and can range in severity.
Ex: Finals week, pencil out of led |
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Pattern of physiological, cognitive, and behavioral reactions to demands that exceed a person's resources.
Cognitive=thinking about it.
Behavioral=tired, not going |
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Small things that happen daily.
Hassles: Not enough sleep, physical appearance, being lonely.
Uplifts: Completing a task, socializing, giving a gift
-Hassles are good predictors of psychological and physical health
-Uplifts don't have much of a buffer effect. |
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| General Adaptation Syndrome |
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| if you encounter a stimulus that you've seen before, the brain recognizes it and the EEG plunges |
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patterns of responses
-physiological changes
-behavioral displays
-subjective feelings |
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strong emotions include sympathetic nervous system responses
ex: fight or flight response |
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Frontal Lobotomy
-dealt with anxiety
-cut connecting fibers in brain (no anxiety, but also no emotion at all) |
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Trans-orbital approach
-lobotomies through the eyeball
(ewww)
-much faster |
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| Behavioral Displays of Emotion |
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-social cues
-appears innate
-recognition over time |
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opposing messages signaled by opposite movements and postures
-Dogs and Cats |
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| The James-Lange Theory of Subjective Feelings |
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Environmental Stimulus - Body- Brain
Example:
See a bear- physiological arousal or behavior (you begin to run away)- now you are frightened |
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| position of facial muscles determines emotions |
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| Cannon-Bard Theory of Subjective Feelings |
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Enivironmental Stimulus- Thalamus- Cortex/Autonomic Nervous System- Subjective Sensation/physiological arousal
Example:
See a bear- stimulus sent to thalamus- brain sends stimulus to cortex and to the autonomic nervous system- you are frightened and you begin to run away |
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| Cognitive Appraisal Theory |
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must realize something is happening to have the subjective emotion
Example:
Dr. T's near death car experience |
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| Schacter- Singer Theory of Subjective Feelings |
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Factor 1 (General Arousal) + Factor 2 (Cognitive Interpretation) = Specific Emotion
Example:
you sense a bear- you see the bear- fear |
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| On a Polygraph, the experimenter askes specific questions only the perpetrator and the police would know |
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ask general questions and then ask the relevent questions
is this your name?
do you live here?
DID YOU KILL MRS O'LEARY?!?! |
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