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Emotions
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changes in physiological and behavioral states caused by a stimulus or stimulus context. in humans many of our emotions are experienced as feelings or moods.
arises in response to certain affectively toned experiences |
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the four integral components of human emotions
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physiological arousal (increase in endocrine activity, heart rate, blood pressure, etc), cognitive processes (perception, learning, and memory), behavioral responses (motivate us to act out or express our feelings example: freezing due to fear), and affect or subjective feelings (behavior or physiology changes are detected and then produce the feeling of an emotion)
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Plutchik's Eight Primary Human Emotions
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acceptance and disgust
fear and anger surprise and anticipation sadness and joy |
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James-Lange Theory
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Theory that explains emotional states (such as fear) resulting from an organism's awareness of bodily responses to a situation, rather than from cognitions about that situation.
Different patterns of physiological activity are associated with different emotions contradict common sense behavioral and physiological reactions occur too quickly to be triggered by emotions |
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Cannon-Bard Theory
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Emotions occur simultaneously with physiological changes, rather than deriving from body changes.
the thalamus plays a key role in our emotional responses |
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Schacter-Singer Theory
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a given body state can be linked to a variety of emotions depending on the context in which the body state occurs
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Opponent-process theory of emotion
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theory that when a strong emotion response to a particular stimulus disrupts emotional balance, an opposite emotional response is eventually activated to restore emotional equilibrium
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Stress
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the process of appraising events (as harmful, threatening, or challenging), of assessing potential responses, and of responding to those events
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General Adaptation Syndrome (GAS)
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Alarm phase is characterized by a flood of stress hormones that prepare the body for fight or flight.
Resistance stage the body returns to a less aroused state. Exhaustion stage in which its body tissues begin to show signs of wear and tear, and susceptibility to disease increases |
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Type A
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Individuals who are hard-driving, competitive, hostile, time urgent, and demanding both themselves and others, as described by Friedman and Rosenman in their study of coronary heart disease
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Type B
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individuals who are relaxed, easygoing, not driven to achieve perfection, happy in their jobs, understanding, and not easily angered, as described by Friedman and Rosenmand in their study of coronary heart disease
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Hypertension
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commonly referred to as high blood press; a condition of excessive blood flow through the vessels that can result in both hardening and general deterioration of the walls of the vessels
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cancer
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a collection of many diseases, all of which result from genetic alterations in cells that produces runaway cell growth
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Psychoneuroimmunology
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scientific study of the relationship between behavior and disease processes
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Immune System
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a complex surveillance system that guards the body by recognizing and removing bacteria, cancer cells, and other hazardous foreign substances
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