AP Psychology Unit 8B Flashcards
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| 8788818176 | Emotion | a response of the whole organism, involving (1) physiological arousal, (2) expressive behaviors, and (3) conscious experience. |  | 0 |
| 8788818177 | James-Lange Theory | the theory that our experience of emotion is our awareness of our physiological responses to emotion-arousing stimuli. |  | 1 |
| 8788818178 | Cannon-Bard Theory | the theory that an emotion-arousing stimulus simultaneously triggers (1) physiological responses and (2) the subjective experience of emotion. |  | 2 |
| 8788818179 | Two-Factor Theory | the Schachter-Singer theory that to experience emotion one must (1) be physically aroused and (2) cognitively label the arousal. |  | 3 |
| 8788818180 | 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 |
| 8788818181 | 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 |
| 8788818182 | Catharsis | an emotional release. The catharsis hypothesis maintains that "releasing" aggressive energy (through action or fantasy) relieves aggressive urges. |  | 6 |
| 8788818183 | Feel-Good, Do-Good Phenomenon | people's tendency to be helpful when already in a good mood. |  | 7 |
| 8788818184 | Well-Being | self-perceived happiness or satisfaction with life. Used along with measures of objective well-beign (for example, physical and economic indicators) to evaluate people's quality of life. |  | 8 |
| 8788818185 | Adaptation-Level Phenomenon | our tendency to form judgments (of sounds, of lights, of income) relative to a neutral level defined by our prior experience. |  | 9 |
| 8788818186 | Relative Deprivation | the perception that we are worse off relative to those with whom we compare ourselves. |  | 10 |
| 8788818187 | Behavioral Medicine | an interdisciplinary field that integrates behavioral and medical knowledge and applies that knowledge to health and disease. |  | 11 |
| 8788818188 | Health Psychology | a subfield of psychology that provides psychology's contribution to behavioral medicine. |  | 12 |
| 8788818189 | Stress | the process by which we perceive and respond to certain events, called stressors, that we appraise as threatening or challenging. |  | 13 |
| 8788818190 | General Adaptation Syndrome (GAS) | Selye's concept of the body's adaptive response to stress in three phases—alarm, resistance, exhaustion. |  | 14 |
| 8788818191 | Coronary Heart Disease | the clogging of the vessels that nourish the heart muscle; the leading cause of death in North America. |  | 15 |
| 8788818192 | Type A | Friedman and Rosenman's term for competitive, hard-driving, impatient, verbally aggressive, and anger-prone people. |  | 16 |
| 8788818193 | Type B | Friedman and Rosenman's term for easygoing, relaxed people. |  | 17 |
| 8788818194 | Psychophysiological Illness | literally, "mind-body" illness; any stress-related physical illness, such as hypertension and some headaches. |  | 18 |
| 8788818195 | Psychoneuroimmunology (PNI) | the study of how psychological, neural, and endocrine processes together affect the immune system and resulting health. |  | 19 |
| 8788818196 | 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. |  | 20 |