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A mental and physiological feeling state that directs our attention and guides our behavior.
What is emotion
A driving force that initiates and directs behavior.
What is motivation?
The ability of an individual to modulate an emotion or a set of emotions
What is emotion regulation?
The physiological response to internal or external stressors.
What is stress?
A medical syndrome that includes symptoms of anxiety, sleeplessness, nightmares, and social withdrawal.
What is PTSD?
The idea that the experience of emotion is accompanied by physiological arousal.
What is the Cannon-Bard Theory
Proposes that emotion is the result of arousal
What is the James-Lange theory?
A general tendency to expect positive outcomes
What is optimism?
The belief in our ability to carry out particular actions in order to achieve a particular set of desired results.
What is self- efficacy?
Behavioral reaction to stress that involves activities designed to create social networks that provide protection from threats.
What is the tend and befriend response?
The tendency to incorrectly label the source of the physiological arousal one is experiencing.
What is misattribution of arousal?
Proposes that arousal and cognition combine to create emotion.
What is the two-factor theory?
An eating disorder characterized by binge eating followed by purging.
What is bulimia nervosa?
Our everyday interactions with the environment that are essentially negative
What are daily hassles?
The ability to successfully control our emotions.
What is emotional regulation?
A stress hormone that releases sugars into the blood, helping the body to respond to threat.
What is cortisol?
Our assessment of our own happiness and life satisfaction.
What is subjective well-being?
The movement of our facial muscles can trigger corresponding emotions
What is the facial feedback hypothesis?
Refers to the three distinct phases of physiological change that occur in response to long-term stress: alarm, resistance, and exhaustion
What is the general adaptation syndrome?
Medical condition in which so much excess body fat has accumulated in the body that it begins to have an adverse impact on health
What is obesity?
System of connections between the hypothalamus, the pituitary and the adrenal glands that plays an important role in our experience of stress.
What is the HPA axis?
The three distinct phases of physiological change that occur in response to long-term stress.
What is General adaptation syndrome?
Physiological response to stress involving interactions among the hypothalamus, the pituitary, and the adrenal glands.
What is the HPA axis?
An emotional and behavioral reaction to stress that increases the readiness for action.
What is the fight-or-flight response?
A measurement that compares one’s weight and height.
What is BMI?