AP PSYCHOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -The more personally important the outcome, the more intense the emotion. After seeing a bear in the woods, you become frightened, and then start running. Perceiving a stimulus causes autonomic arousal and other bodily actions that lead to the experience of a specfic emotion.

Detailed explanation-2: -Lazarus (1991) developed the cognitive-mediational theory that asserts our emotions are determined by our appraisal of the stimulus. This appraisal mediates between the stimulus and the emotional response, and it is immediate and often unconscious.

Detailed explanation-3: -Appraisal theories of emotion are theories that state that emotions result from people’s interpretations and explanations of their circumstances even in the absence of physiological arousal (Aronson, 2005).

Detailed explanation-4: -According to Lazarus, the physiological reactions that an external stimulus can cause is based on the personal meaning that the individual has to it. For some people, the sound of a gunshot is an immediate emergency. This creates feelings of fear because there is an imminent to protect one’s life.

Detailed explanation-5: -Theories of Emotions as Formulated by Different Psychologists are : 1. James-Lange Theory 2. Cannon-Bard Theory 3. Cognitive Theory.