FREE AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT AP PSYCH CHAPTER 8

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FREE AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT AP PSYCH CHAPTER 8

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Question 1: Robert Zajonc

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He has contended that we actually have many emotional reactions apart from, or even before, our interpretations of a situation.

Question 2: Two Factor Theory

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The Schachter-Singer theory that to experience emotion one must (1) be physically aroused and (2) cognitively label the arousal.

Question 3: Drive Reduction Theory

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The idea that a physiological need creates an aroused tension state (a drive) that motivates an organism to satisfy the need.

Question 4: Coronary Heart Disease

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The clogging of the vessels that nourish the heart muscle; the leading cause of death in North America.

Question 5: Glucose

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The form of sugar that circulates in the blood and provides the major source of energy for body tissues.When its level is low, we feel hunger.

Question 6: Psychoneuroimmunology (PNI)

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The study of how psychological, neural, and endocrine processes together affect the immune system and resulting health.

Question 7: Paul Ekman

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Runs training seminars to teach law enforcement officers to detect the presumed fleeting signals of deceit in facial expressions.

Question 8: Relative Deprivation

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The perception that we are worse off relative to those with whom we compare ourselves.

Question 9: Daryl Bem

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Theorized that genes code for prenatal hormones and brain anatomy, which predispose temperaments that lead children to prefer gender-typical or gender-atypical activities and friends.

Question 10: Psychophysiological Illness

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Literally "mind-body" illness; any stress-related physical illness, such as hypertension and some headaches.

Question 11: Feel Good, Do Good Phenomenom

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People's tendency to be helpful when already in a good mood.

Question 12: Abraham Maslow

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Described human priorities as the hierarchy of needs.

Question 13: Homeostasis

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A tendency to maintain a balanced or constant internal state; the regulation of any aspect of body chemistry, such as blood glucose, around a particular level.

Question 14: James-Lange Theory

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The theory that our experience of emotion is our awareness of our physiological responses to emotion-arousing stimuli.

Question 15: Facial Feedback

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The effect of facial expressions on experienced emotions, as when a facial expression of anger or happiness intensifies feelings of anger or happiness.

Question 16: Bulimia Nervosa

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An eating disorder characterized by episodes of overeating, usually of high-calorie foods, followed by vomiting, laxative use, fasting, or excessive exercise.

Question 17: Cannon-Bard Theory

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The theory that an emotion-arousing stimulus simultaneously triggers (1) physiological responses and (2) the subjective experience of emotion.

Question 18: Charles Darwin

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Facial expressions are part of how we communicate to survive.

Question 19: General Adaptation Syndrome (GAS)

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Selye's concept of the body's adaptive response to stress in three phases-alarm, resistance, exhaustion.

Question 20: Emotion

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A response of the whole organism, involving (1) physiological arousal, (2) expressive behaviors, and (3) conscious experience.

Question 21: Joseph LeDoux

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He believes that some emotions take the "low road" via neural pathways that bypass the cortex.

Question 22: Well Being

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Self-perceived happiness or satisfaction with life. Used along with measures of objective well-being (for example, physical and economic indicators) to evaluate people's quality of life.

Question 23: Anorexia Nervosa

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An eating disorder in which a person (usually an adolescent female) diets and becomes significantly (15 percent or more) underweight, yet, still feeling fat, continues to starve.

Question 24: Testosterone

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The most important of the male sex hormones. Both males and females have it, but the additional testosterone in males stimulates the growth of the male sex organs in the fetus and the development of the male sex characteristics during puberty.

Question 25: Estrogens

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Sex hormones, such as estradiol, secreted in greater amounts by females than by males and contributing to female sex characteristics. In nonhuman female mammals, estrogen levels peak during ovulation, promoting sexual receptivity.