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Unit 7

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show a response of the whole organism, involving 1. physiological arousal 2. expressive behavior 3. conscious experience  
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James-Lange theory   show
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show the theory that an emotion-arousing stimulus simultaneously triggers 1. physiological responses 2. the subjective experience of emotion. body and emotion happen at the same time  
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two-factor theory/ Schachter-Singer   show
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Lazarus theory   show
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show cognitive arousal sometimes occurs without our awareness and defines our emotion -cognition happens automatically  
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polygraph   show
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facial feedback theory   show
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show the tendency of behavior to influence our own and other's thoughts, feelings and actions  
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stress   show
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show Selye's concept of the body's adaptive response to stress in three phases alarm, resistance, exhaustion  
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show under stress, people (espically women) often provide support to others (tend) and bond with and seek support from others (befriend)  
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show a subfield of psychology that provides psychology's contributions to behavioral medicine  
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psychoneuroimmunology   show
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show the clogging of the vessels that nourish the heart muscle, the leading cause of death in many developing countries  
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show Friedman and Roseman's term for competitive hard-driving, impatient, verbally aggressive and anger-prone people  
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show Friedman and Roseman's term for easygoing, relaxed people  
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show in psychology, the idea that "releasing" aggressive energy (through actions/fantasy) relieves aggressive urges  
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aerobic exercise   show
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show a reflective practice in which people attend to current experiences in a non-judgmental and accepting manner  
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feel-good, do-good phenomenon   show
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positive psychology   show
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subjective well-being   show
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show our tendency to form judgments (of sounds, of lights, of income) related to a neural level defined by our prior experience  
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relative deprivation   show
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show Worked with Lange to create the James-Lange theory of emotion  
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Walter Cannon   show
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Stanley Schachter   show
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Robert Zajonc   show
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show worked with Zajonc concluded that emotions are "higher-order states" embedded in cortical circuits. cognition happens automatically  
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show Behavioral psychologists focused on reward and punishment as the causes of behavior and largely ignored the role of emotions. developed a theory of emotion called cognitive appraisal theory.  
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show discovered that some facial expressions of emotion are universal while many of the apparent differences in facial expressions across cultures were due to context facial feedback theory  
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Kurt Lewin   show
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Hans Selye   show
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show positive psychology researched learned helplessness and positive emotions  
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show Lewin’s Motivational Conflict Theory that a choice between two different alternatives that we like, but we can only pick one  
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show Lewin’s Motivational Conflict Theory that we have to pick one choice or the other alternative, but dislike both.  
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show Lewin’s Motivational Conflict Theory that a choice of whether to do something when it has both positive and negative qualities.  
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Double approach-avoidance   show
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show the stimulus or challenge causing stress  
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stress reaction   show
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