AP PSYCHOLOGY

MOTIVATION EMOTION AND STRESS

MOTIVATION AND EMOTION

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Our emotional experience is a combination of the emotion we think we are experiencing and the physiological changes that happen.
A
Cannon-Bard Theory
B
James-Lange Theory
C
Schachter’s Two Factor Theory
D
None of these
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -According to the Schachter-Singer theory of emotion, developed in 1962, there are two key components of an emotion: physical arousal and a cognitive label. In other words, the experience of emotion involves first having some kind of physiological response which the mind then identifies.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Schachter-Singer theory explains that emotion is formed from physiological arousal and a cognitive label. This theory also explains that a person’s emotional response is formed from an interpretation of their immediate environment.

Detailed explanation-3: -The two-factor theory of emotion is a theory that states that emotion is primarily based on two factors: physiological arousal and a subsequent cognitive process. In this process, a person uses his or her immediate environment to look for emotional cues to label the arousal, or sexual attraction.

Detailed explanation-4: -The two-factor theory of emotion states that emotion is based on two factors: physiological arousal and cognitive label. The theory was created by researchers Stanley Schachter and Jerome E. Singer.

Detailed explanation-5: -the theory that experiencing and identifying emotional states are functions of both physiological arousal and cognitive interpretations of the physical state. Also called attribution of emotion; cognitive arousal theory of emotion; Schachter theory; two-factor theory of emotion.

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