Advanced Placement Psychology
Enterprise High School, Redding, CA\
All terms from Myers Psychology for AP (BFW Worth, 2011)
5959186161 | Emotion | a response of the whole organism, involving (1) physiological arousal, (2) expressive behaviors, and (3) conscious experience. | ![]() | 0 |
5959186162 | James-Lange Theory | the theory that our experience of emotion is our awareness of our physiological responses to emotion-arousing stimuli. | ![]() | 1 |
5959186163 | Cannon-Bard Theory | the theory that an emotion-arousing stimulus simultaneously triggers (1) physiological responses and (2) the subjective experience of emotion. | ![]() | 2 |
5959186164 | Two-Factor Theory | the Schachter-Singer theory that to experience emotion one must (1) be physically aroused and (2) cognitively label the arousal. | ![]() | 3 |
5959186165 | 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 |
5959186166 | 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. | ![]() | 5 |
5959186174 | Stress | the process by which we perceive and respond to certain events, called stressors, that we appraise as threatening or challenging. | ![]() | 6 |
5959186175 | General Adaptation Syndrome (GAS) | Selye's concept of the body's adaptive response to stress in three phases—alarm, resistance, exhaustion. | ![]() | 7 |
5959186176 | Coronary Heart Disease | the clogging of the vessels that nourish the heart muscle; the leading cause of death in North America. | ![]() | 8 |
5959186177 | Type A | Friedman and Rosenman's term for competitive, hard-driving, impatient, verbally aggressive, and anger-prone people. | ![]() | 9 |
5959186178 | Type B | Friedman and Rosenman's term for easygoing, relaxed people. | ![]() | 10 |
5959186179 | Psychophysiological Illness | literally, "mind-body" illness; any stress-related physical illness, such as hypertension and some headaches. | ![]() | 11 |
5959186180 | Psychoneuroimmunology (PNI) | the study of how psychological, neural, and endocrine processes together affect the immune system and resulting health. | ![]() | 12 |
5959186181 | Lymphocytes | the two types of white blood cells that are part of the body's immune system: B lymphocytes form in the bone marrow and release antibodies that fight bacterial infections; The T lymphocytes form in the thymus and other lymphatic tissue and attack cancer cells, viruses, and foreign substances. | ![]() | 13 |