Study Guide for AP Psychology Test Chapter 12- Emotion, Stress and Health

Study Guide for AP Psychology Test Chapter 12- Emotion, Stress and Health Emotions: Emotional response high road- ______Emotions are the ______behaviors, Lie Detectors (Polygraphs): ______arousal, and ______of guilty ______experiences. people are judged innocent by lie detectors. Theories: ______of innocent people are James-Lange (William James) : judged guilty by lie detectors . ______first then ______. Spillover Effect: arousal from one To experience emotion is to be ______influences our response to ______of our physiological responses to other ______. an emotion-arousing event. Facial Expressions: “we feel sorry because we cry . . . afraid because Where do we detect most emotions in others? we tremble”? Which emotion is easily defined in someone's Cannon Bard Theory: The physiological arousal face? and the emotion are experienced Children of abuse know which emotion easily? ______. What is difficult for us to detect in facial Cerebral Cortex and Sympathetic N.S. get the expression? information at the ______. Are e-mail's good ways to detect emotion? Schachter-Singer "Two Factor Theory": Why/why not? arousal and then ______Who's better at facial expression detection? which emotion you are experiencing. Men/women? Introverts/Extroverts? Sympathetic Nervous System: Response Gender Neutral faces.... (arousing) to stressful events: Some things like: Cultural expression prove.... pupils ______, ______Women and emotions: in saliva, ______in perspiration, Crying and distress... ______in respiration, Fear ______heart beat, Fear can be learned, observationally learned(i.e. ______of digestion, Adrenal gland seeing someone else that is scared of the item) secrete ______hormones. We (humans) are biologically predisposed to Parasympathetic Nervous System- learn some fears quicker than others. ______the body after a stressful Anger event. (opposite of the above list) Catharsis Hypothesis- release. Catharsis The Brain and Emotions: hypothesis is that ______against Right Prefrontal Cortex: more active electrically something/someone relives aggressive urges and to ______emotions ______us. (Darwin believed this Left Prefrontal Cortex: more active electrically was wrong, that it ______our to ______emotions Anger) Amygdala: rapid and Happy- ______emotional responses may Feel-good, do-good phenomenon, people feel result from the routing of sensory input through happy when they are more willing to the ______directly to the amygdala. ______. Damage to the amygdala can cause the organism Subjective Well Being - ______react to impending ______fear/______. happiness. Prefrontal Cortex: Rapid Parts of the day we are having positive moods ______reactions to sensory input in and when we are having negative moods. Best the absence of ______thought are way to improve Subjective Well Being is to possible because certain participate in regular ______bypass ______. the Prefrontal Cortex. Emotional response low road- brain 1 ______Diminishing Returns Phenomenon- the original Psychoneuroimmunology- study of how feeling of the emotion gets ______, ______, and enthusiastic as the emotion is aroused. ______processes combine to affect Adaptation level phenomenon- tendency for our immune system and health ______to be Immune System- Two major agents of the heavily influenced by previous experiences. immune system? (2) Religious- ______- contributes to ______- white general happiness and life satisfaction. blood cells that are part of the body's immune Stress- the process by which we ______system and respond to environmental ______and B lymphocytes- ______infections ______. T Lymphocytes- ______Stressor- is the object/person/event that can infections ______a stressful situation AIDS- caused by a ______spread Stress Reactions- stress ______responses primarily by ______. Causes the greatest (i.e. heartbeat etc) number of deaths where? Hormones in bloodstream when stressed? (2) Coping with Stress ______from the Problem focused Coping- alleviate the stress by Adrenal glands. ______the stressor. ______in a stressful situation would be Emotion focused Coping-feeling you cannot change dulled by what system? ______the stress, so you go to ______to alleviate Fight or flight reaction- wide variety of the stress or ______the stressor all ______can trigger the reaction of fight or together. flight Perceived Control- feeling like you have some ______response-come ______to change the situation. (executive together and help each other in times of need. (uses rat...lives longer.) ______as a hormone to cuddle and pair ______- experience less stress, have a bonding) better attitude. Better immune systems. General Adaptation Syndrome (GAS)- body's ______- experience more stress. More responses to prolonged stress. Three stages. likely to die earlier. ______, ______(strongest), Laughter? Live longer (less and ______. ______) Stressful events: death of a spouse, change in job, or Married people vs. Unmarried? ended a marriage. Aerobic Exercise- helps with ______and Results of Stress: Vulnerability to stress (better than relaxation exercises) ______, ______, Complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) - Friedman and Rosenman homeopathy, acupuncture, and herbal remedies, are Type A- competitive, hard-driving, and bound to seem effective, whether or not they are. impatient. negative emotions, especially the anger Could have the ______. associated with an aggressively reactive ______- correlation between religious temperament. More likely to have a heart attack attendance and participation and life expectancy. (due to the stress and anger) or experience increase of cholesterol/fat because the stress causes the liver to function less effectively to remove this from the blood stream. Type B- less physiologically reactive when harassed or given a difficult challenge. Less susceptible to heart attacks. ______illness- a stress-related physical illness such as hypertension.