CHILD DEVELOPMENT PEDAGOGY

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: -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.

Detailed explanation-4: -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-5: -Schachter and Singer’s (1962) Two-Factor Theory of Emotion suggests that physiological arousal determines the strength of the emotion, while cognitive appraisal identifies the emotion label. So, in this theory, the “two-factor” represents physiological change and cognitive appraisal change.