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| 196047635 | emotion | a response of the whole organism, involving (1) physiological arousal, (2) expressive behaviors, and (3) conscious experience. | |
| 196047636 | James-Lange theory | the theory that our experience of emotion is our awareness of our physiological responses to emotion-arousing stimuli. | |
| 196047637 | Cannon-Bard theory | the theory that an emotion-arousing stimulus simultaneously triggers (1) physiological responses and (2) the subjective experience of emotion. | |
| 196047638 | two-factor theory | the Schachter-Singer theory that to experience emotion one must (1) be physically aroused and (2) cognitively label the arousal. | |
| 196047639 | 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). | |
| 196047640 | catharsis | emotional release. In psychology, the catharsis hypothesis maintains that "releasing" aggressive energy (through action or fantasy) relieves aggressive urges. | |
| 196047641 | feel-good, do good phenomenon | people's tendency to be helpful when already in a good mood. | |
| 196047642 | subjective well-being | self-perceived happiness or satisfaction with life. Used along with measures of objective well-being to evaluate people's quality of life. | |
| 196047643 | adaptation-level phenomenon | our tendency to form judgments (of sounds, of lights, of income) relative to a neutral level definite by our prior experience. | |
| 196047644 | relative deprivation | the perception that one is worse off relative to those with whom one compares oneself. | |
| 196047645 | behavioral medicine | an interdisciplinary field that integrates behavioral and medical knowledge and applies that knowledge to healthy and disease. | |
| 196047646 | health psychology | a subfield of psychology that provides psychology's contribution to behavioral medicine. | |
| 196047647 | stress | the process by which we perceive and respond to certain events, called stressors, that we appraise as threatening or challenging. | |
| 196047648 | general adaptation syndrome (GAS) | Selye's concept of the body's adaptivie responses to stress in three states -- alarm, resistance, exhaustion. | |
| 196047649 | coronary heart disease | the clogging of the vessels that nourish the heart muscle; the leading cause of death in many developed countries. | |
| 196047650 | Type A | Friedman and Rosenman's term for competitive, hard-driving impatient, verbally agressive, and anger-prone people. | |
| 196047651 | Type B | Friedman and Rosenman's term for easygoing, relaxed people. | |
| 196047652 | psychophysiological illness | literally, "mind-body" illness; any stress related physical illness, such as hypertension and some headaches. | |
| 196047653 | psychoneuroimmunology (PNI) | the study of how psychological nueral, and endocrine processes together affect the immune system and resulting health. | |
| 196047654 | 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. | |
| 196047659 | biofeedback | a system for electronically recording, amplifying, and feeding back information regarding a subtle physiological state, such as blood pressure or muscle tension. | |
| 196047661 | 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 |
