01:830:101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 34: Behavioral Medicine

• School: Rutgers University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: 01:830:101
• Professor: Professor Marvasti

Document Summary

Polygraph: a machine, commonly used in attempts to detect lies, that measures several of the physiological responses accompanying emotion (such as perspiration and cardiovascular and breathing changes). Facial feedback: the effect of facial expressions on experienced emotions, as when a facial expression of anger or happiness intensifies feelings of anger or happiness. The hypothesis for this maintains that releasing aggressive energy (through action or fantasy) relieves aggressive urges. Feel-good, do-good phenomenon: people"s tendency to be helpful when already in a good mood. Well-being: self-perceived happiness or satisfaction with life. Used along with objective measures (for example, physical and economic indicators) to evaluate people"s quality of life. Adaptation-level phenomenon: our tendency to form judgments (of sounds, of lights, of income) relative to a neutral level defined by our prior experience. Relative deprivation: the perception that we are worse off relative to those with whom we compare ourselves.