After completing this chapter you should be able to:
- Define emotion.
- Describe the physiology of emotion, including characteristic facial expressions, activity in specific parts of the brain, and hormones that stimulate sympathetic nervous system activity.
- Explain Schachter and Singer's two-factor theory of emotion.
- Distinguish between primary and secondary emotions.
- Define display rules and provide examples of cultural differences for expressing emotions.
- Discuss gender differences in emotional expressions.
- Explain the three-stage process of the general adaptation syndrome.
- Identify stressors likely to increase the risk of illness.
- Examine how optimistic and pessimistic explanatory styles and locuses of control affects psychological and physical health.
- Explain how Eastern and Western cultures differ in their attitudes toward the ability and desirability of controlling our own lives.
- Examine the relationship between stress and coronary heart disease.
- Examine the role of emotional inhibition in health problems.
- Identify and describe the following coping strategies: relaxation training, exercise, emotion- versus problem-focused coping, reappraising the situation, learning from the experience, making social comparisons, and cultivating a sense of humor.
- Discuss the role of social support on psychological and physical health.
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