Emotions

2. Friedman and Rosenman’s term for competitive, hard-driving, impatient, verbally aggressive, and anger-prone people.
6. self-perceived happiness or satisfaction with life. Used along with measures of objective well being to evaluate people’s quality of life
8. A system for electronically recording, amplifying, and feeding back information regarding a subtle physiological state, such as blood pressure or muscle tension
10. a group of diverse medical and health-care systems, practice and products that are not presently considered to be part of conventional medicine
11. The theory that our experience of emotion is our awareness of our physiological responses to emotion-arousing stimuli
12. Selye’s concept of the body’s adaptive response to stress in three states - alarm, resistance, exhaustion.
13. our tendency to form judgements relative to a neutral level defined by our prior experience
14. the perception that one is worse off relative to those with whom one compares oneself

1. Emotional release. In Psychology, the catharsis hypothesis maintains that “releasing” aggressive energy relieves aggressive urges
3. A response of the whole organism involving physiological arousal, expressive behaviors, and conscious experience
4. The Schachter-Singer theory that to experience emotion one must be physically aroused and cognitively label the arousal
5. people’s tendency to be helpful when already in a good mood
7. The process by which we perceive and respond to certain events, called stressors, that Syndromeise as threatening or challenging
9. The theory that an emotion-arousing stimulus simultaneously triggers physiological responses and the subjective experience of emotion
15. Friedman and Rosenman’s term for easygoing, relaxed people