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A response of the whole organism involving (1) psychological arousal, (2) expressive behaviours, and (3) conscious experience
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Emotion
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The theory that our experience of emotion is our awareness of our physiological responses to emotion-arousing stimuli
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James-Lange theory
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The theory that an emotion-arousing stimulus simultaneously triggers (1) physiological responses and (2) the subjective experience of emotion
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Cannon-Bard theory
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The Schachter-Singer theory that to experience emotion one must (1) to be physically aroused and (2) cognitively label the arousal
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Two-Factor Theory
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A machine that measures several of the physiological responses accompanying emotion (such as perspiration and cardiovascular and breathing changes)
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Polygraph
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Emotional release
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Catharsis
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maintains that "releasing" aggressive energy (through action or fantasy) relieves aggressive urges
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Catharsis Hypothesis
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People's tendency to be helpful when already in a good mood
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Feel-Good, Do-Good Phenomenon
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Self-perceived happiness or satisfaction with life
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Subjective Well-Being
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Our tendency to form judgements relative to a neutral defined by out prior experience
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Adaptation-Level Phenomenon
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The perception that one is worse off relative to those with whom one compares oneself
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Relative Deprivation
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An interdisciplinary field that integrates behavioural and medical knowledge and applies that knowledge to health and disease
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Behavioural Medicine
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A sub-field of psychology that provides psychology's contribution to behavioural medicine
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Health Psychology
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The process by which we perceive and respond to certain events, called stressors, that we appraise as threatening or challenging
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Stress
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Selye's concept of the body' adaptive response to stress in three states - alarm, resistance, exhaustion
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General Adaptation Syndrome (GAS)
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The clogging of the vessels that nourish the heart muscle; the leading cause of death in many developed countries
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Coronary Heart Disease
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Friedman and Rosenman's term for competitive, hard-driving, impatient, verbally aggressive, and anger-prone people
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Type A
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Friedman and Rosenman's term for easygoing, relaxed people
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Type B
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Literally, "mind-body" illness; any stress-related physical illness
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Psychophysiological Illness
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The study of how psychological, neural, and endocrine processes together affect the immune system and resulting health
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Psychoneuroimmunology (PNI)
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The two types of white blood cells that are part of the body's immune system: B-type form in the bone marrow and release antibodies that fight bacterial infections; T-type form in the thymus and similar tissue and attack cancer cells, viruses, and foreign substances
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Lymphocytes
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Alleviating stress using emotional, cognitive, or behavioural methods
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Coping
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Attempting to alleviate stress by avoiding or ignoring a stressor and attending to emotional needs related to one's stress reaction
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Emotion-Focused Coping
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Attempting to alleviate stress directly - by changing the stressor or the way we interact with that stressor
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Problem-Focused Coping
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Sustained exercise that increases heart and lung fitness; may also alleviate depression and anxiety
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Aerobic Exercise
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A system for electronically recording, amplifying, and feeding back information regarding a subtle physiological state, such as blood pressure or muscle tension
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Biofeedback
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As yet unproven health care treatments intended to supplement or serve as alternatives to conventional medicine, and which typically are not widely taught in medical schools, used in hospitals, or reimburse by insurance companies
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Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM)
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