Emotion

EMOTION
- response of the whole organism, psychological arousal, expressive behaviors, and conscious experience.

JAMES-LANGUE THEORY OF EMOTION
 -experience of emotion is awareness of physiological responses and subjective experience of emotion.

CANNON BARD
- emotion arousing stimuli simultaneously trigger, psychological responses, subjective experience of emotion.



SCHACHTER TWO FACTOR
-to experience emotion on must be physically aroused, cognitively label the arousal.

POLYGRAPH
- machine commonly used in attempts to detect lies, measures perspiration, heart beats, and breathing changes.

AMYGDALA
-a neutral key to fear learning

CATHARSIS
-emotion release, catharsis hypothesis, "releasing"


FEEL-GOOD DO-GOOD
-people tendency to be helpful when already in a good mood

ADAPTATION LEVEL PHENOMENON
-tendency to form judgement relative to a "neutral" level, brightness of lights, volumes of sound, level of income,

RELATIVE DEPRESSION
-perception that is worse off relative to those who whom one compares oneself.