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| 6305732028 | emotion | a response of the whole organism, involving (1) physiological arousal, (2) expressive behaviors, and (3) conscious experience | 0 | |
| 6305732029 | James-Lange Theory | the theory that our experience of emotion is our awareness of our physiological responses to emotion -arousing stimuli | 1 | |
| 6305732030 | Cannon-Bard Theory | the theory that an emotion-arousing stimulus simultaneously triggers (1) physiological responses and (2) the subjective experience of emotion | 2 | |
| 6305732031 | two-factor theory | Schachter-Singer's theory that to experience emotion one must (1) be physically aroused and (2) cognitively label the arousal. | 3 | |
| 6305732032 | polygraph | 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). | 4 | |
| 6305732033 | catharsis | emotional release; in psychology, the catharsis hypothesis maintains that "releasing" aggressive energy (through action or fantasy) relieves aggressive urges | 5 | |
| 6305732034 | feel-good, do-good phenomenon | people's tendency to be helpful when already in a good mood | 6 | |
| 6305732035 | 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's quality of life | 7 | |
| 6305732036 | adaptation-level phenomenon | our tendency to form judgments (of sounds, of lights, of income) relative to a neutral level defined by our prior experience | 8 | |
| 6305732037 | relative deprivation | the perception that one is worse off relative to those with whom one compares oneself | 9 |
