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emotion |
a response of the whole organism, involving (1) physiological arousal, (2) expressive behaviors and (3) conscious experience |
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james-lange theory |
the theory that our experience of emotion is wour awareness of our physiological responses to emotion-arousing stimuli |
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Cannon-Bard Theory |
the theory that an emotion-arousing stimulus simulataneously triggers (1) physiological responses and (2) subjective expereince of emotion |
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two-factor theory |
schacter's thory that to experience emotion one must be physcially aroused an d cognitively label the arousal. |
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polygraph |
lie-detector |
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feel-good do good phenomenon |
people's tendency to be helpful when already in a good mood. |
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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. |
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adaption-level phenomenon |
our tendency to form judgments relative to a "neutral" level defined by our prior experience |
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relative deprivation |
the perception that one is worse off relative to those with whom one compares oneself |
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