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AP PSYCH: Unit 8

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emotions
a response of the whole organism, involving physiological arousal, expressive behaviors, and conscious experience
James-Lange Theory
suggests that emotions occur as a result of physiological responses to emotion-arousing events
Cannon-Bard Theory
suggests that an emotion-arousing stimulus simultaneously triggers (1) physiological responses and the (2) the subject experience of emotion
Two-Factor Theory
suggests that to experience emotion one must (1) be physically aroused and (2) cognitively label the arousal based on context or situation
sympathetic nervous system
fight or flight
fight
avoidant
General Adaptation Syndrome
body's adaptive response to stress in three phases - alarm, resistance, exhaustion
GAS Phase 1
alarm reaction: heart rate spike, blood flows to major muscle groups and organs, breathing accelerates, body heats up
GAS Phase 2
hormones like cortisol and adrenaline are released and prepare you to meet the challenge
GAS Phase 3
with no relief from stress, your body's reserves begin to run out (sickness, inflammation, exhaustion, motivational burnout, depression, and potentially death)
Better health through stress perception
increase risk of dying, cardiovascular disease, stroke, inflammation
those who see the advantages brought on by stress can reduce the negative psychological and physiological symptoms
Trust-fund rat study
the group of rats that had to physically work for their treat also developed healthier emotional responses than the "trust fund" rats
Coping
alleviating stress using emotional, cognitive, or behavioral methods
Problem-focused coping
Attempting to alleviate stress directly by changing the stressor or the way we interact with that stressor
Emotion-focused coping
attempting to alleviate stress by avoiding or ignoring a stressor and attending to emotional needs related to one's stress reaction
- going to the gym
Yerkes-Dodson Law
the principle that performance increases with arousal only up to a point, beyond which performance decreases
- inverted U
Personality
an individual's characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling, and acting
the unconscious
according to freud and psychodynamic theory- a collection of socially unacceptable and repressed thoughts, wishes, feelings, and memories, including those connected to evolutionary instincts
free association
in psychoanalysis, a method of exploring the unconscious in which the person relaxes and says whatever comes to mind, no matter how trivial or embarrassing
ID
unconscious force that strives to satisfy basic sexual and aggressive drives, operates on pleasure principle and immediate gratification
ego
balances
Superego
goody two shoes
Carl Jung
collective unconscious
collective unconscious
psychic connection inherited reservoir of evolutionary memory in the form of images, symbols, themes and characters or archetypes, going back through species history
Persona
conscious portrayed self
shadow
dark side, unconscious, ID
Jung's self
unification of conscious and unconscious forces
- yin yang
projective tests
use ambiguous stimuli
- ink blot
- tat
humanistic theories
personality through the lens of human potential in the right social environments, geared toward pathways to personal growth and self awareness that adds to ones free will and independence (self-actualization)
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