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cultural evolution: the adaptive change of a culture to recurrent environmental pressures: driven mainly by psychological factors, product of human intellect and physical capacity. Lifestyle: the aggregate behavior of a person; the way in which a person leads his or her life. Law of effect behaviors that produce favorable consequences tend to be repeated, and those that produce unfavorable consequences tend not to be repeated. stress: a pattern of physiological, behavioral, and cognitive responses to stimuli (real or imagined) that are perceived as endangering one"s well-being/ blocking a goal. stressors: stimuli that are perceived as endangering one"s well-being. stress is a biological response that is experienced as an emotion. selye"s general adaption syndrome www. notesolution. com: the model proposed by selye to describe the body"s adaptation to chronic exposure to severe stressors. cognitive appraisal: one"s perception of a stressful situation: two staged process.

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19. As was presented in the textbook, modern emotion researchers assume that most emotions A) are determined primarily by physiological responses B) are determined primarily by cognitive responses C) are reflected in particular behavioral responses D) involve a combination of cognitive, physiological, and behavioral response patterns E) are exclusively culturally determined

19. As was presented in the textbook, modern emotion researchers assume that most emotions A) are determined primarily by physiological responses B) are determined primarily by cognitive responses C) are reflected in particular behavioral responses D) involve a combination of cognitive, physiological, and behavioral E) are exclusively culturally determined response patterns

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