type B- Friedman and Roseman’s term for easygoing and relaxed people.
Type A
Adaptation-Level Phenomenon
Feel-Good, Do-Good Phenomenon
Catharsis
catharsis- emotional release. The catharsis hypothesis maintains that “releasing” aggressive feelings relieves negative urges.

Superheroes don’t seem to understand that prison isn’t a long-term solution for supervillians. You would think that Batman would change his tactics after the Joker broke out of Arkham for the 12th time.
Polygraph
polygraph– machine measuring body responses such as perspiration, heart rate, and breathing. This information is sometimes used to predict lies.

Polygraphs aren’t that accurate as subjects are also stressed by the interrogation process, so information gained from polygraph tests isn’t admissible in court.
Emotion
Motivation
Explict Memory
Automatic Processing
automatic processing- unconscious encoding of everyday information; such as space, time, frequency, and well learned word meanings.

You can hear a word once and remember it for the rest of your life, but names? You can hear them five times in one conversation and still not remember them. I occasionally forget the names of good friends.