Emotions and Stuff

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

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

the theory that an emotion-arousing stimulus simultaneously triggers physiological responses and subjective experience of emotion

theory that to experience emotion, one must be physically aroused and cognitively label the arousal

when our arousal response to one event spills over into our response to the next event

an interdisciplinary field that integrates behavioral and medical knowledge and applies that knowledge to health and disease

a subfield of psychology that provides psychology's contribution to behavioral medicine

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

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

• the clogging of the vessels that nourish the heart muscle
• the leading cause of death in many developed countries

Friedman and Rosenman's term for competitive, hard-driving, ipatient, verbally aggressive, and anger-prone people

Friedman and Rosenman's term for easygoing, relaxed people

• Literally "mind-body" illness
• any stress related physical illness, such as hypertension and some headaches

the study of how psychological, neural, and endocrine processes together affect the immune system and resulting health

the two types of white blood cells that are part of the body's immunesystem