AP PSYCHOLOGY

MOTIVATION EMOTION AND STRESS

MOTIVATION AND EMOTION

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
With which of the following would Zajonc most likely agree?
A
Some emotions go the amygdala without passing through the cortex.
B
Our physiological arousal to different emotional stimuli are different enough that we can tell what we are feeling by our physiological arousal alone.
C
Highly emotional people may personalize events as being directed at them.
D
Physiological arousal must have a cognitive label in order for us to interpret what we are feeling.
E
Physiological arousal and our subjective response to an emotional stimulus happen at the same time.
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Zajonc believed that emotion is independent from cognition. Our own view is that the study of emotion and cognition should be integrated, because the phenomena themselves are integrated (Dewey, 1894; Parrott & Sabini, 1989).

Detailed explanation-2: -The amygdala is commonly thought to form the core of a neural system for processing fearful and threatening stimuli (4), including detection of threat and activation of appropriate fear-related behaviors in response to threatening or dangerous stimuli.

Detailed explanation-3: -Zajonc and LeDoux believed that not all emotional responses involve cognition. Lazarus, Schachter, and Singer believed that memories, expectations, and interpretations always influence our emotional responses.

Detailed explanation-4: -Amygdala is the integrative center for emotions, emotional behavior, and motivation. If the brain is turned upside down the end of the structure continuous with the hippocampus is called the uncus. If you peel away uncus you will expose the amygdala which abuts the anterior of the hippocampus.

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