AP PSYCHOLOGY

MOTIVATION EMOTION AND STRESS

THEORIES AND PHYSIOLOGY OF EMOTION

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
As you run from the attacking tiger your sympathetic nervous system is activated. The specific pattern of autonomic arousal you experience is automatically interpreted by the brain as fear.
A
James-Lange
B
Cannon-Bard
C
Schacter-Singer
D
None of the above
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -As you run from the attacking tiger, your sympathetic nervous system is activated. Your brain evaluates your surroundings and determines from the large animal racing toward you that you are, in fact, afraid, and not excited.

Detailed explanation-2: -The James-Lange theory asserts that emotions arise as a function of physiological arousal. The Cannon-Bard theory maintains that emotional experience occurs simultaneous to and independent of physiological arousal.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Cannon-Bard theory proposes that emotions and arousal occur at the same time.

Detailed explanation-4: -According to the James-Lange theory of emotion, the conscious experience of emotion results from one’s perception of autonomic arousal. Describe the different components of emotion. Emotions are made up of three components.

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