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| Front-side | Reverse-side |
|---|---|
| adaptation-level phenomenon | our tendency to form judgments (of sounds, of lights, of income) relative to a "neutral" level defined by our prior experience |
| Cannon-Bard theory | the theory that an emotion-arousing stimulus simultaneously triggers (1) physiological responses and (2) the subjective experience of emotion |
| catharsis | emotional release. In psychology, the catharsis hypothesis maintains that "releasing" aggressive energy (through action or fantasy) relieves aggressive urges |
| emotion | a response of the whole organism, involving (1) physiological arousal, (2) expressive behaviors, and (3) conscious experience |
| feel-good, do-good phenomenon | people’s tendency to be helpful when already in a good mood |
| James-Lange theory | the theory that our experience of emotion is our awareness of our physiological responses to emotion-arousing stimuli |
| polygraph | a machine, commonly used in attempts to detect lies, that measures several of the physiological responses accompanying emotion (such as perspiration, heart rate, blood pressure, and breathing changes) |
| relative deprivation | the perception that one is worse off relative to those with whom one compares oneself |
| subjective well-being | 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 |
| two-factor theory | Schachter’s theory that to experience emotion one must (1) be physically aroused and (2) cognitively label the arousal |