emotion
a response of the whole organism, involving (1) physiological arousal, (2) expressive behaviors, and (3) conscious experience
James-Lange theory
the theory that our experience of emotion is our awareness of 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 Schacter-Singer theory that to experience emotion one must (1) be physically aroused and (2) cognitively label the arousal
amygdala
emotional control center in the brain's limbic system
nucleus accumbens
a neural pathway that increases dopamine levels that run from the frontal lobes to a nearby cluster of neurons. This region lights up when people experience natural or drug-induced pleases
spillover effect
sometimes our arousal response to one event spills over into our response to the next event
valence
intrinsic positive or attractiveness or aversiveness
display rules
expressing more emotion to fellow group members than to outsiders
facial feedback
the effect of facial expressions on experienced emotions, as when a facial expression of anger or happiness intensifies feelings of anger or happiness
behavior feedback
as your force behaviors your mood with correspond with your actions
catharsis
emotional release, the idea that releasing aggressive energy relieves aggressive urges
feel-good do good phenomenon
people's tendency to be helpful when already in a good mood
well being
self-perceived happiness or satisfaction with life
adaption-level phenomenon
our tendency to form judgments relative to a neutral level defined by our prior experience
relative deprivation
the perception that we are worse off relative to those with whom we compare ourselves
behavioral medicine
an interdisciplinary field that integrates behaviors and medical knowledge and applies that knowledge to health and disease
health psychology
a subfield of psychology that providese psychology's contribution to behavioral medicine
stress
the process by which we perceive and respond to certain events, called stressors, that we appraise as threateneing or challenging
general adaptation syndrome
Selye's concept of body's adaptive response to stress in 3 phases, alarm, resistance, exhaustion
telomeres
DNA pieces when too short, cannot divide and ultimately die
Type A
hard-driving, impatient, verbally aggressive, and anger prone people
Type B
easygoing, relaxed people
lymphocytes
the two types of white blood cells that are part of the body's immune system
opponent process theory of emotion
every emotion triggers an opposing emotion