Movements of our facial muscles produce or intensify our subjective experience of emotion
What is facial feedback hypothesis?
Branch of the Autonomic Nervous System responsible for the fight or flight response, including increased heart rate, sweating and breathing fast.
What is sympathetic nervous system?
These are active efforts to master, reduce or tolerate demands created by stress
What is coping?
This theory states that our physiology and our cognition together create emotion.
What is Cognitive (Schactor Two-Factor) theory?
This part of the brain plays a critical role in hunger and satiety
What is hypothalamus?
Stress triggers an aroused fight or flight response, diverting energy from this system.
What is the immune system?
The emotional predicament that people experience when making difficult choices.
What are internal conflicts?
A culture-specific rule that indicates when, to whom, and how strongly certain emotions can be shown.
What are display rules?
Alarm, resistance, and exhaustion characterize the phases of:
What is general adaptation syndrome?
The cumulative wear and tear on the body necessary to maintain homeostasis in the face of stressors.
What is allostatic load?
This part of the brain plays a prominent role in fear learning
What is amygdala?
The failure to interpret signs of bodily arousal correctly, which leads to the experience of emotions that ordinarily would not arise in the particular situation.
What is the misattribution of arousal?
The main stress hormone; high levels lead to impairment in immune system functioning and memory.
What is cortisol?
_________ focuses on changing the environment itself or the way the person interacts with the environment, while _______ focuses on changing the person’s emotional response to the stressor.
What is problem-focused coping; emotion-focused coping?
The components of an emotion
What are a positive or negative subjective experience, bodily arousal, the activation of specific mental processes and stored information, and characteristic behavior?
A _______ culture that emphasizes the rights and responsibilities of the group over those of the individual, whereas a ________emphasizes the rights and responsibilities of the individual over those of the group.
What is collectivist; individualistic?
A hostile person with a type A personality is most at risk for developing this.
What is heart disease?
These are 3 ways to cope with stress.
What are social support, exercise, relaxation training, biofeedback, and mediation, etc.?