AP PSYCHOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Different theories exist regarding how and why people experience emotion. These include evolutionary theories, the James-Lange theory, the Cannon-Bard theory, Schacter and Singer’s two-factor theory, and cognitive appraisal.

Detailed explanation-2: -Which of these scenarios describes a scenario from the perspective of the Cannon-Bard theory of emotion? A man, who is allergic to bees, encounters a bee. Simultaneously, the man’s heart beat increases, he starts sweating, and he labels the emotion he is experiencing as fear.

Detailed explanation-3: -The basic emotion theory proposed that each emotion has its own dedicated neural circuitry that is architecturally distinct. For example, fear is a kind of emotion that produce subjective feelings through separate neural pathways of the central nervous system, or peripheral nervous systems (Cowen and Keltner, 2018).

Detailed explanation-4: -The Cannon-Bard theory of emotion, also known as the Thalamic theory of emotion, is a physiological explanation of emotion developed by Walter Cannon and Philip Bard. Cannon-Bard theory states that we feel emotions and experience physiological reactions such as sweating, trembling, and muscle tension simultaneously.