Chapter 12

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Emotion

A response of the whole organism, involving physiological arousal, expressive behaviors, and conscious experience

Where are B lymphocytes formed?

Bone marrow

Catharsis

Emotional release. In psychology, the catharsis hypothesis maintains that releasing aggressive energy (through action or fantasy) relieves aggressive urges

Type B

Friedman and Rosenman's term for easygoing, relaxed people

Psychoneuroimmunology

The study of how psychological, neural, and endocrine processes together affect the immune system and resulting health

Polygraph

A machine, commonly used to detect lies, that measures several of the physiological responses accompanying emotion (such as perspiration and cardiovascular and breathing changes)

Health psychology

A sub field if psychology that provides psychology's contribution to behavioural medicine

Biofeedback

A system for electronically recording, amplifying, and feeding back information regarding a subtle physiological state, such as blood pressure or muscle tension

Coping

Alleviating stress using emotional, cognitive, or behavioural methods

Americans are more likely than Japanese do what?

Allow their facial expressions to openly display their feelings

Behavioural medicine

An interdisciplinary field that integrates behavioural and medical knowledge and applies that knowledge to health and disease

Complementary and alternative medicine

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 hospital, or reimbursed companies. When research shows a therapy to be safe and effective, it usually then becomes part of accepted medical practice

Emotion-focused coping

Attempting to alleviate stress by avoiding or ignoring a stressor and attending to emotional needs related to ones stress reaction

Problem-focused coping

Attempting to alleviate stress directly-by changing the stressor or the way we inter at I with that stressor

What does the activation of the sympathetic nervous system do to the body?

Decreases salivation and increases blood pressure

Your friend's father has just passed away. You don't just say you are sorry for the loss, but rather you tell your friend that you truly feel the pain that she is going through. You really understand her grief and both of you are crying together. This is an example of what?

Empathy

Type A

Friedman and Rosenman's term for competitive, hard-driving, verbally aggressive, and anger-prone people

The feel-good, do-good phenomenon refers to the impact of

Happiness on helpfulness

Dr. Harper is studying the effects of HIV awareness campaigns and the reduction of new HIV cases within the Latino population of a major city. He is examining what is working and what is not working to stem the tide of this high-risk area of the city. He is also looking at medication compliance and wellness examinations. What kind of psychologist is he?

Health

A month ago, Jason lost his job due to circumstances beyond his control and he is very concerned about his financial situation. Since then, he has learned that his wife will not be able to return to Canada because she cannot get her "permanent residency" authorization, and that his comfortable apartment is bring sold, and that he must find another place to live. Given what happens when people feel unable to control their environment, which of the following do you think is likely to be true of Jason?

His immune response is dropping

Adaptation-level phenomenon

Our tendency to form judgements (of sounds, of lights, of income) relative to a neutral level defined by our prior experience

Feel-good, do-good phenomenon

People's tendency to be helpful when already in a good mood

Highly emotional people are intense partly because of their interpretations. They may _____ events as being somehow directed at them, and they may _____ their experiences by blowing single incidents out of proportion.

Personalize; generalize

Perceived loss on control is associated with _____ epinephrine levels and _____ lymphocyte levels:

Raised and lowered

What is the second phase of the general adaptation syndrome (GAS) characterized by?

Resistance

According to the Schacter-Singer two-factor theory of emotion, which of the following is the correct sequence of events when a car drives directly toward us and we experience emotion?

See an oncoming car; heart pounds and, at the same time, the arousal is cognitively labeled; experience fear

Subjective well-being

Self-perceived happiness or satisfaction with life. Used along with measures of objective well being (for example, physical and economic indicators) to evaluate people's quality of life

General adaptation syndrome

Selyes concept of the body's adaptive response to stress in three phases-alarm, resistance, exhaustion

Compared with monkeys left in stable groups, those they were housed with 3 or 4 new roommates each month were more likely to experience what?

Suppressed production of lymphocytes

Two-Factor Theory

The Schachter-Singer Theory that to experience emotion one must be physically aroused and cognitively label the arousal

Coronary heart disease

The clogging of the vessels that nourish the heart muscle; the leading cause of death in many developed countries

Relative deprivation

The perception that one is worse off relative to those with whom one composites oneself

Stress

The process by which we perceive and respond to certain events called stressors that we appraise as threatening or challenging

Cannon-Bard Theory

The theory that an emotion-arousing tumulus simultaneously triggers physiological responses and the subjective experience of emotion

James-Lange Theory

The theory that our experience of emotion is our awareness of our physiological responses to emotion arousing stimuli

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; T lymphocytes form in the thymus and other lymphatic tissue and attack cancer cells, viruses, and foreign substances

Mandisa is under an extreme amount of stress. She is battling with her ex-husband about money and their children. In this time of stress, Mandisa turns to her friends for support and spends as much time with her children as possible. Taylor and colleagues would say that she is responding to stress according to which of the following models?

"Tend or Befriend"

What does activation of the parasympathetic nervous system do?

Increases salvation and decreases blood pressure

Aerobic exercise _____ the body's production of serotonin and _____ its production of the endorphins.

Increases; increases

Which part of the brain results in increased activity when a person is in a positive mood?

Left frontal lobe

Psychophysiological illness

Literally, "mind-body" illness; any stress-related physical illness, such as hypertension and some headaches

What does the James-Lange theory of emotion suggest is the most important aspect of emotions?

Our awareness of our physiological responses to emotion-arousing stimuli

In a senior writing seminar, students were asked to write a brief autobiography. 60 years later, if researcher were to analyze these autobiographies, what would be the most likely outcome in terms of their longevity (i.e., which group is likely to live an average of 7 years longer)?

Those who had expressed happiness, love, and other positive feelings in their autobiographies

You look down while sitting at the top of the ferris wheel. You immediately feel your heart start to pound. You are confused by the response until you remember your last experience on a ferris wheel. During that experience, the wind started to blow, the seats began to rock, and you thought you were going to die. You realize your heart is pounding because you are afraid. Which of these following theories best explains this sequence of events?

Two-factor theory

People tend to use emotion-focused, rather than problem-focused, coping strategies in which situation?

When they believe they cannot change a stressful situation


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