AP Psych Ch 13: Emotion Flashcards
Vocabulary from Chapter 13: Emotion
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| 334983448 | emotion | a response of the whole organism involiving physiological arousal, expressive behaviors, and conscious experience | 0 | |
| 334983449 | James-Lange theory | the theory that our experience of emotion is our awareness of our physiological responses to emotion-arousing stimuli | 1 | |
| 334983450 | Cannon-Bard theory | the theory that an emotion-arousing stimulus simultaneously triggers physiological responses and the subjective experience of emotion | 2 | |
| 334983451 | two-factor theory | Schachter's theory that to experience emotion one must be physically aroused and cognitively label the arousal | 3 | |
| 334983452 | polygraph | a machine that measures several of the physiological responses accompanying emotion | 4 | |
| 334983453 | catharsis | emotional release | 5 | |
| 334983454 | feel-good, do-good phenomenon | people's tendency to be helpful when already in a good mood | 6 | |
| 334983455 | subjective well-being | self-perceived happiness or satisfaction with life | 7 | |
| 334983456 | adaptation-level phenomenon | our tendency to form judgements relative to a "neutral" level defined by our prior experience | 8 | |
| 334983457 | relative deprivation | the perception that one is worse off relative to those with whom one compares oneself | 9 |