Chapter 12 Flashcards
(26 cards)
Emotion
A response of the whole organism, involving (one) physiological arousal, (two) expressive behaviors, and (three) conscious experience.
James Lange theory
The theory that our experience of emotion is our awareness of our physiological responses to emotion arousing stimuli.
Cannon Bard theory
The theory that an emotion arousing stimulus simultaneously triggers (1) physiological responses and (2) the subjective experience of emotion.
Two factor theory
The Schachter singer. Got to experience emotion one must (one) be physically aroused and (two) cognitively label the arousal.
Polygraph
In machine, commonly used in attempts to detect lies, that measures several of the physiological responses accompanying emotions (such as perspiration and cardiovascular and breathing changes).
Catharsis
Emotional release. In psychology, the catharsis hypothesis maintains that “releasing” aggressive energy (through action or fantasy) released aggressive urges.
Feel good do good phenomenon
People’s tendency to be helpful when already in a good mood.
Subjective well-being
Self perceived happiness or satisfaction with life. Used along with measures of objective well-being (for example, physical and economic indicators) to evaluate people quality-of-life.
Adaption level phenomenon
Our tendency to form judgments (of sounds, the lights, of income) relative to a neutral level defined by our prior experience.
Relative deprivation
The perception that one is worth of relative to those with whom one compares oneself.
Behavioral Medicine
An interdisciplinary field that integrates behavioral and medical knowledge and applies that knowledge to health and disease.
Health psychology
Decent field of psychology that provide psychologies contribution to behavioral medicine.
Stress
The process by which we perceive and respond to certain events, called stressors, that we appraise as threatening or challenging.
General adaption syndrome (GAS)
Selye’s concept of the bodies adaptive response to stress injuries dates – alarm, resistance, exhaustion.
Coronary heart disease
The quality of the vessels that nurse the heart muscle; the leading cause of death and many developed countries.
Type a
Friedman and Rosenman’s term for competitive, hard-driving, inpatient, verbally aggressive, and anger prone people.
Type B
Friedman and Rosenman’s term for easy-going calm, relaxed people.
Psychophysiological illness
Literally, “mind-body” illness; any stress-related physical illness, such as hypertension and headaches
Psychoneuroimmunology (PNI)
The study of how psychological, Ural, and endocrine processes together affect the immune system and resulting health
Lymphocytes
The two types of white blood cells that are part of the body’s immune system: B lymphocytes form in the bone marrow and release antibodies that fight bacterial infections; T lymphocytes form in the thalamus and other lymphatic tissue and attack cancer cells, viruses, and foreign substances.
Coping
Alleviating stress using emotional, cognitive, or behavioral methods.
Problem focused coping
Attempting to alleviate stress directly – by changing this dresser or the way we interact that stressor.
Emotion focused coping
Attempting to alleviate stress by avoiding or ignoring a stressor and attending to emotional needs related to one stress reaction.
Aerobic exercise
Exercise increases heart and lung fitness may also alleviate depression and anxiety.
