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Emotions
State of pleasantness or unpleasantness.
Conscious Experience
Awareness
Physiological Response
Autonomic Systems
Behavioral Acts
Body language, facial expressions.
Six Universally Recognized Expressions
1. Happiness
2. Disgust
3. Surprise
4. Fear
5. Sadness
6. Anger
James and Lange Theory
Physiology comes first.
Snarling Dog > Changes Body > Conscious Fear
Cannon and Bard Theory
Simultaneous Response
Snarling Dog > Subcortical Brain Activity > ANS Arousal (Changes Body) and/or Conscious Fear
Schachter's Two-Factor Theory
Physiology and appraisal to label our emotion. Environment dictates emotion.
Snarling Dog > Cognitive Arousal and/or ANS Arousal > Conscious Fear
Stress
Physiological response of body to demands placed on it.
Distress
Negative Stress
Eustress
Positive Stress
Life Changes (Source of Stress)
Major Events. Holmes and Rahe: Social Readjustment Rating Scale (SRRS).
Hassles (Source of Stress)
Daily minor irritations.
Catastrophes (Source of Stress)
Negative, uncontrollable, and unpredictable events.
Societal (Source of Stress)
Part of life. (Pollution, crime, economy, war)
Other Stress Factors
Predictability - can you predict
Controllability - control outcome
Familiarity - happened before
Motivation
Support - friends
Personality - optimist/pessimist
Psychological Coping
Dealing with demands.
Hans Selye (Physiological Response to Stress)
Founder of international stress.
General Adaptation Syndrome (GAS)
Hans Selye
Three Phases:
1. Alarm reaction - fight or flight
2. Resistance - attempting to be normal
3.Exhaustion - if we don't do something about the stress in our lives.
Psychosomatic Disorders
Body's response to stress.
Ineffective Coping Strategies
1. Suicide
2. Coronary-prone Behaviors: Type-A Personality
3. Overuse/Misuse of Drugs
4. Harmful/Negative Behaviors: abuse of self or others
Type-A Personality
Feeling of urgency, intense striving, excessive hostility, competitiveness, easily provoked, more risk of heart-attack.