Unit 8B Vocab

Question 0

The theory that our experience of emotion is our awareness of our physiological responses to emotion-arousing stimuli.

Answer 0

James-Lange theory

Question 1

A response of the whole organism, involving (1) physiological arousal,(2) expressive behaviors, and (3) conscious experience.

Answer 1

Emotion

Question 2

The theory that an emotion-arousing stimulus simultaneously triggers (1) physiological responses and (2) the subjective experience of emotion.

Answer 2

Cannon-Bard theory

Question 3

The schachter-singer theory that to experience emotion one must (1) be physically aroused and (2) cognitively label the arousal.

Answer 3

Two-factor theory

Question 4

A machine, commonly used in attempts to detect lies, that measures several of the physiological responses accompanying emotion ( such as perspiration and cardiovascular and breathing changes).

Answer 4

Polygraph

Question 5

The effect of facial expressions on experienced emotions, as when a facial expression of anger or happiness intensifies feelings of anger or happiness.

Answer 5

Facial feedback

Question 6

Emotional release. The hypothesis maintains that “releasing” aggressive energy ( through action or fantasy) relieves aggressive urges.

Answer 6

Catharsis

Question 7

People’s tendency to be helpful when already in a good mood.

Answer 7

Feel-good, do-good phenomenon

Question 8

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.

Answer 8

Well-being

Question 9

Our tendency to form judgements ( of sounds, of lights, of income) relative to a neutral level defined by our prior experience.

Answer 9

Adaption- level phenomenon

Question 10

The perception that we are worse off relative to those with whom we compare ourselves.

Answer 10

Relative deprivation

Question 11

An interdisciplinary field that integrates behavioral and medical knowledge and applies that knowledge to health and disease.

Answer 11

Behavioral medicine

Question 12

The subfield of psychology that provides psychology’s contribution to behavioral medicine.

Answer 12

Health psychology

Question 13

The process by which we perceive and respond to certain events, called stressors, that we appraise as threatening or challenging.

Answer 13

Stress

Question 14

Selye’s concept of the body’s adaptive response to stress in three phases- alarm, resistance, exhaustion.

Answer 14

General adaptation syndrome (GAS)

Question 15

The clogging of the vessels that nourish the heart muscle; the leading cause of death in North America.

Answer 15

Coronary heart disease

Question 16

Friedman and Rosenman’s term for competitive, hard-driving, impatient, verbally aggressive, and anger-prone people.

Answer 16

Type A

Question 17

Friedman and Rosenman’s term for easygoing, relaxed people.

Answer 17

Type B

Question 18

Literally, “mind-body” illness; any stress-related physical illness, such as hypertension and some headaches.

Answer 18

Pyschophysiological illness

Question 19

The study of how psychological, neural, and endocrine processes together affect the immune system and resulting health.

Answer 19

Psychoneuroimmunology (PNI)

Question 20

The two types of white blood cells that are a 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 thymus and other lymphatic tissue and attack cancer cells, viruses, and foreign substances.

Answer 20

Lymphocytes