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a response of the whole organism, involving (1) physiological arousal (heart beat racing), (2) expressive behavior (you quicken your pace of walking) (3) consciously experienced thoughts and feelings (you think..am i going to get kidnapped.)
1. physcial arrousal of your body.
2. your body/ behvior alters/ reacts.
3. your thoughts are influenced. |
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he basically say that we feel bad or relaize we feel bad because we cry. Firts comes the crying, the physical response, and then comes the emotion...and hormones. The physcial action produces the hormones.
the theory that our experience of emotion is our awareness of our physiological responses to emotion-arousing stimuli.
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the theory that an emotion arousing stimulus simultaneously triggers (1) physiological responses (crying) and (2) cognitively label arousal (sad emotion).
basicallty they believe that "your eyes begin to water as you experiance sadness" they happend together at the same time and one does not souly cause the other. |
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the Schachter-Singer theory that to experience emotion one must (1) be physically aroused and (2) cognitively label arousal.
they believe that you feel the pounding heart...then you identify that "I am afraid" and then you experiance the emotion of fear, but only after you identify that you're afraid. |
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| look at figure 11.4 on p. 382 |
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emotional release. "venting your anger"
The catharsis hypothesis maintains that "releasing" aggressive energy (through action or fantasy) relieves aggressive urges. |
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| feel-good do-good phenomenon? |
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| people's tendency to be helpful when already in a good mood. |
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self-perceived happiness or satisfaction with life. Used along with measures of objective well-being (for example, physical and economic indicators) to evaluate people's quality of life.
so looking to see if someone has a happy life depending on whether they are physcially in shape and are wealthy. |
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| adaptive-level phenomenon? |
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| our tendency to form judgments (of sounds, of lights, of income) relative to a neutral level defined by our prior experience. |
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| the perception that we are worse off relative to those whom we compare ourselves. |
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| the process by which we percieve and respond to certain events, called stressors, that we appraise as threatening or challenging. |
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| general adaptation syndrome (GAS)? |
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Selye's concept of the body's adaptive response to stress in three phases -- alarm, resistance, exhaustion.
our bodies have an adaptive response system that sounds when anyhting desturbs the body. (it's like a burglar allarm that sounds when anything enter the building) |
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| the clogging of the vessels that nourish the heart muscle; the leading cause of death in North America. |
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| Friedman and Rosenman's term for competitive, hard-driving, impatient, verbally aggressive, and anger prone people. |
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| Friedman and Rosenman's term for easy going, relaxed people. |
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| Psycho-physiological illness? |
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| literally "mind-body" illness; any stress related physical illness, such as hypertension and some headaches. |
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| the tow types of white blood cells that are part of the bodies immune system: B lymphocytes form in the bone marrow and release antibodies that fight bacterial infections; T lymphocytes form in the thymus and other lymphatic tissue and attack cancer cells, viruses, and foreign substances. |
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| alleviating stress using emotional, cognitive, or behavioral methods. |
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| attempting to alleviate stress directly by changing the stressor or the way we interact with that stressor. |
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| attempting to alleviate stress by avoiding or ignoring a stressor and attending to emotional needs related to one's stress reaction. |
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| sustained exercise that increases heart and lung fitness; may also reduce stress, depression, and anxiety. |
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| complementary and alternative medicine (CAM)? |
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| unproven health treatments intended ot supplement or serve as alternatives to traditional medicine. Once research shows that a certain therapy is safe and effective it usual then becomes apart of medical practice. |
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| a machine commonly used in attempts to direct lies, that measures several of the physiological responses accompanying emotion (such as perspiration or cardiovascular and breathing changes.) |
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