AP PSYCHOLOGY

MOTIVATION EMOTION AND STRESS

THEORIES AND PHYSIOLOGY OF EMOTION

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
If a man cries at a funeral, observers suspect he is sad; if he cries at his daughter’s wedding, they suspect he is joyful. thus, emotions are created by cognitive as a person tries to account for a state of perceived activation.
A
Cannon-Bard Theory
B
Schachter’s Two-Factor Theory
C
Cognitive-mediational Theory
D
Facial Feedback Hypothesis
E
Le’Doux’s Dual Pathway Model
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -If a man cries at a funeral, observers suspect he is sad; if he cries at his daughter’s wedding, they suspect he is joyful. thus, emotions are created by cognitive as a person tries to account for a state of perceived activation.

Detailed explanation-2: -Examples of arousal theory include: If our arousal levels drop too low, we might seek stimulation by going out to a nightclub with friends. If our arousal levels become too elevated and we become overstimulated, we might be motivated to select a relaxing activity such as going for a walk or taking a nap.

Detailed explanation-3: -For example, if you were to see a venomous snake in your backyard, the Schachter–Singer theory argues that the snake would elicit sympathetic nervous system activation (physiological arousal) that would be cognitively labeled as fear (cognition) based on the context.

Detailed explanation-4: -The process begins with the stimulus (the strange man), which is followed by the physical arousal (rapid heartbeat and trembling). Added to this is the cognitive label (associating the physical reactions to fear), which is immediately followed by the conscious experience of the emotion (fear).

Detailed explanation-5: -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).

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