Emotion
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| 5803869653 | emotion | a response of the whole organism, involving (1) physiological arousal, (2) expressive behaviors, and (3) conscious experience. | 0 | |
| 5803869654 | James-Lange theory | the theory that our experience of emotion is our awareness of our physiological responses to emotion-arousing stimuli. | 1 | |
| 5803869655 | Cannon-Bard theory | the theory that an emotion-arousing stimulus simultaneously triggers (1) physiological responses and (2) the subjective experience of emotion. | 2 | |
| 5803869656 | two-factor theory | the Schachter-Singer theory that to experience emotion one must (1) be physically aroused and (2) cognitively label the arousal. | 3 | |
| 5803869657 | 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 | |
| 5803869658 | 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 | |
| 5803869659 | catharsis | emotional release. In psychology, the catharsis hypothesis maintains that "releasing" aggressive energy (through action or fantasy) relieves aggressive urges. | 6 | |
| 5803869660 | feel-good, do good phenomenon | people's tendency to be helpful when already in a good mood. | 7 | |
| 5803869661 | well-being | self-perceived happiness or satisfaction with life. Used along with measures of objective well-being (ie; physical and economic indicators) to evaluate people's quality of life. | 8 | |
| 5803869662 | adaptation-level phenomenon | our tendency to form judgments (of sounds, of lights, of income) relative to a neutral level definite by our prior experience. | 9 | |
| 5803869663 | relative deprivation | the perception that one is worse off relative to those with whom one compares oneself. | 10 | |
| 5803869664 | behavioral medicine | an interdisciplinary field that integrates behavioral and medical knowledge and applies that knowledge to healthy and disease. | 11 | |
| 5803869665 | health psychology | a subfield of psychology that provides psychology's contribution to behavioral medicine. | 12 | |
| 5803869666 | stress | the process by which we perceive and respond to certain events, called stressors, that we appraise as threatening or challenging. | 13 | |
| 5803869667 | general adaptation syndrome (GAS) | Selye's concept of the body's adaptivie responses to stress in three states -- alarm, resistance, exhaustion. | 14 | |
| 5803869668 | coronary heart disease | the clogging of the vessels that nourish the heart muscle; the leading cause of death in many developed countries. | 15 | |
| 5803869669 | Type A | Friedman and Rosenman's term for competitive, hard-driving impatient, verbally agressive, and anger-prone people. | 16 | |
| 5803869670 | Type B | Friedman and Rosenman's term for easygoing, relaxed people. | 17 | |
| 5803869671 | psychophysiological illness | literally, "mind-body" illness; any stress related physical illness, such as hypertension and some headaches. | 18 | |
| 5803869672 | psychoneuroimmunology (PNI) | the study of how psychological nueral, and endocrine processes together affect the immune system and resulting health. | 19 | |
| 5803869673 | lymphocytes | two types of white blood cells that are a part of the immune system: B-lymphocytes form in the bone marrow and release antibodies to fight bacterial infection. T-lymphocytes form in the thymus and attack cancer cells, viruses, and foreign substances. | 20 |
