Emotion
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| 7767014808 | Emotion | A response of the whole organism, involving (1) Physiological arousal, (2) expressive behaviors, and (3) conscious experience. |  | 0 |
| 7767014809 | James-Lange Theory | The theory that our experience of emotion is our awareness of our physiological responses to emotion-arousing stimuli. (bear->sweat->scared) |  | 1 |
| 7767014810 | Cannon-Bard Theory | The theory that an emotion-arousing stimulus simultaneously triggers (1) physiological responses and (2) the subjective experience of emotion. (bear->thalamus->sweat and scared) |  | 2 |
| 7767014811 | Two-Factor Theory | Schachter's theory that to experience emotion one must (1) be physically aroused and (2) cognitively label the arousal. (bear->sweat->brain labels it->scared) |  | 3 |
| 7767014812 | Polygraph | Lie detector (don't actually work) |  | 4 |
| 7767014813 | Catharsis | Emotional release. Releasing" aggressive energy (through action or fantasy) relieves aggressive urges. |  | 5 |
| 7767014814 | Feel-Good, Do-Good Phenomenon | People's tendency to be helpful when already in a good mood. |  | 6 |
| 7767014815 | Subjective Well-Being | Self-Perceived happiness with life. Used with measures of objective well-being (like physical and economic indicators) to evaluate quality of life. |  | 7 |
| 7767014816 | Adaptation-Level Phenomenon | Our tendency to form judgements (of sounds, of lights, of income) relative to a "neutral" level defined by our prior experience. |  | 8 |
| 7767014817 | Relative Deprivation | The perception that one is worse off relative to those with whom one compares oneself. |  | 9 |
