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. Your brain evaluates your surroundings and determines from the large animal racing toward you that you are in fact afraid, and not excited.
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. The specific pattern of autonomic arousal you experience is automatically interpreted by your brain as fear.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Cannon-Bard theory of emotion states that stimulating events trigger feelings and physical reactions that occur at the same time. For example, seeing a snake might prompt both the feeling of fear (an emotional response) and a racing heartbeat (a physical reaction).

Detailed explanation-3: -Cognitive appraisal theories are the cognitive theories that have been developed by psychologists. Like the judgment theories, the cognitive appraisal theories emphasize the idea that the way in which an individual evaluates or appraises the stimulus determines the emotion.

Detailed explanation-4: -According to the Cannon-Bard theory of emotion, the experience of an emotion is accompanied by physiological arousal. Thus, according to this model of emotion, as we become aware of danger, our heart rate also increases.

Detailed explanation-5: -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.

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