PSYC 2000 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Karen Horney, Explanatory Style, Neuroticism
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People describe their experienced emotion along two dimensions: Students who value love more than money report higher life satisfaction. Adaptation-level phenomenon touch, people adapt to income levels. Like the adaptation to brightness, volume, and. The perception that we are relatively worse off than those. We feel deprived we don"t have as much as other people. Any circumstance (real or perceived) that threatens a person"s well- When we feel severe stress, our ability to cope with it is impaired. Schizophrenia is not biological, but stressful events may trigger a gene. Twin a gets schizophrenia, but twin b doesn"t. Cannon proposed that the stress response was a fight-or-flight response marked by the out pouring of epinephrine and norepinephrine. A hormone and a neurotransmitter that increases heart rate, constricts blood vessels, dialates air passages and participates in the fight-or-flight response of the sympathetic nervous system. A catecholamine with multiple roles including as a.
