FREE PSYCHOLOGY AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT MODULE

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FREE PSYCHOLOGY AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT MODULE

56-59AP PSYCH EXAM QUESTIONS

Actual Qs and Ans Expert-Verified Explanation

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-Guarantee passing score -23 Questions and Answers -format set of multiple-choice -Expert-Verified Explanation

Question 1: Stress

Answer:

The process by which we perceive and respond to certain events called stressors that we appraise as threatening or challenging

Question 2: Aerobic exercise

Answer:

sustained exercise that increases heart and lung fitness; also helps alleviate depression and anxiety

Question 3: Subjective well-being

Answer:

self- perceived happiness or satisfaction with life, used along with measures of objective well-being

Question 4: Type A

Answer:

Friedman and Roseman's term for competitive hard-driving impatient verbally aggressive and anger prone people

Question 5: Emotion

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a response of the whole organism, involving physiological arousal, expressive behaviors and conscious experience

Question 6: Type B

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Friedman and Rosenman's term for easygoing relaxed people

Question 7: James-Lange Theory

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the theory that our experience of emotion is our awareness of our physiological responses to an emotion - arousing stimulus

Question 8: Facial feedback effect

Answer:

the tendency of facial muscles states to trigger corresponding feelings such as fear, anger, or happiness

Question 9: General adaptation syndrome

Answer:

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

Question 10: Two factor theory

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The Schachter - singer theory that to experience emotion one must be psychically aroused and cognitively label the arousal

Question 11: Mindfulness meditation

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a reflective practice in which people attend to current experiences in nonjudgmental and accepting manner

Question 12: Three types of stressors

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Catastrophes, significant life changes, daily hassles and social stress

Question 13: Relative deprivation

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the perception that one is worse off relative to those with whom one compares oneself

Question 14: Behavior feedback effect

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the tendency of behavior to influence our own and other thoughts feelings and actions

Question 15: Tend and Befriend response

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Under stress people often provide support to others and bond with and seek support from others

Question 16: Catharsis

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In psychology the idea that "releasing" aggressive energy relives aggressive urges

Question 17: Adaptation-level phenomenon

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our tendency to form judgments relative to a neutral level defined by our prior experiences

Question 18: Health heart disease

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the clogging of the vessels that nourish the heart muscle, the leading cause of death in many underdeveloped countries

Question 19: Positive Psychology

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the scientific study of human flourishing with the goals of discovering and promoting strengths and virtues that help individuals and communities

Question 20: Cannon-Bard theory

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the theory that an emotion - arousing stimulus simultaneously triggers

Question 21: Feel-good, do-good Phenomenon

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people's tendency to be helpful when in a good mood

Question 22: Polygraph

Answer:

a machine used in attempts to detect lies those measures several of the physiological responses

Question 23: The spillover effect

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arousal from a soccer match can fuel anger, which can descend into rioting or other violent confrontations