Chapter and Topic of this Review Guide: Chapter 12: Emotions, Stress, and Health
Vocab Term
James-Lange Theory
Definition of Term
1. Perception of stimulus
2. Arousal
3. Emotion
Example
1. See a dog charging you
2. Pounding heart
3. Fear
Cannon-Bard Theory
1. Perception of stimulus
2. *Same time* arousal and emotion
1. See a dog charging you
2. Pounding heart and fear
Two-factor theory
1. Perception of stimulus
2. Arousal and cognitive label
3. Emotion
1. See a dog charging you
2. Pounding heart and “I’m
Polygraph
Catharsis
Feel-good, do-good
phenomenon
Subjective well-being
Adaptation-level
phenomenon
Relative deprivation
Behavioral medicine
Health psychology
Stress
General adaptation
syndrome (GAS)
Coronary heart disease
Type A
Machine used in attempts to detect lies (measuring
responses accompanied by emotion)
Emotional release. (Releasing aggressive energy relieves
aggressive urges)
afraid”
3. Fear
Polygram reacts to measurement of
your heart beat
For Catalina’s anger management
program, the psychiatrist has her go
through catharsis, where she screams
into a pillow.
The tendency to be helpful when already in a good mood After someone holds a door open for
you, you’re more likely to do that for
the next person.
Self-perceived happiness or satisfaction with life.
Being a homeless guy and still
feeling satisfied with life has
subjective well-being.
Tendency to form judgments relative to a neutral level
After watching a movie, in the dark,
defined by past experiences
someone flips all of the lights on, but
you adjust.
Perception that one is worse off relative to those with
Rodger thinks that he will dominate
whom one compares oneself
the one on one basketball game.
Interdisciplinary field that integrates behavioral and
medical knowledge and applies that knowledge to health
and disease
Sub field that provides psychology’s contribution to
behavioral medicine
Process by which we perceive and respond to certain
Psychology exam/final.
events (stressors) that we appraise as
threatening/challenging
Selye’s concept of the body’s adaptive response to stress When Leila realized the psych final
in the three states- alarm, resistance, exhaustion
was this week, she went into phase
two, resistance, and her stress level
skyrocketed.
The clogging of the vessels that nourish the heart muscle,
leading to the cause of death
Friedman and Rosenman’s term for competitive, hardAntonio gets really sweating in gym
driving, impatient, verbally aggressive, and anger-prone class screaming at the kids who don’t
Type B
people
catch the ball and strives for the 4.0.
Friedman and Rosenman’s term for easygoing and
relaxed people
Barbra is the people who is calm in
gym and would much rather play
croquet.
Paula got a headache just thinking
about the hard work she needs to put
in to get an A on the psych final.
Psychophysiological illness “Mind-body” illness, any stress-related physical illness
(ex. Hypertension)
Psychoneuroimmunology
(PNI)
Lymphocytes
Coping
Problem-focused coping
Emotion-focused coping
Aerobic exercise
Biofeedback
Complementary and
alternative medicine
(CAM)
Study of how psychological, neural, and endocrine
processes together affect the immune system and
resulting health
Two types of white blood cells that are part of the body’s
immune system (B form bone marrow and release
antibodies; T form in the thymus and attack
viruses/cancer/ etc.)
Alleviating stress using emotional, cognitive, or
behavioral methods
Attempting to alleviate stress directly by changing the
stressor or the way we interact with the stressor
Charlie’s way of coping with stress is
taking a jog.
Patricia becomes so stressed when
her boss calls her into his office.
Patricia asked him if rather he could
call her on her phone rather than
shout across the office.
Attempting to alleviate stress by avoiding or ignoring a
Patricia completely avoids walking
stressor and attending to emotional needs related to one’s by her boss’s office and when he asks
stress reaction
runs to the bathroom hoping he will
forget.
Sustained exercise the increases heart and lung fitness
Walking, jogging, stair-climbers, etc.
(may alleviate depression and anxiety)
A system for electronically recording, amplifying, and
feeding back information regarding a subtle physiological
state, such as blood pressure or muscle tension
Unproven health care treatments intended to supplement
or serve as alternatives to conventional medicine, and
which typically are not widely taught in medical schools,
used in hospitals, or reimbursed by insurance companies.
When research shows a therapy to be safe and effective is
usually becomes part of accepted medical practice.
Name of Important
Person
What this person is known
for
Impact on Psychology
Hans Selye
Stress research
General Adaption Syndrome
Stage 1: alarm reaction
Stage 2: resistance
Walter Cannon
Stress research
Stage 3: exhaustion
Stress incidents trigger epinephrine and
norepinephrine