LANGUAGE AND CULTURE
STRUCTURALISM
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HOW IT HELPS US AND HURTS US
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HOW IT FUNCTIONS IN OUR LIVES
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WHY SOME BEHAVIORS ARE MORE COMMON THAN OTHERS
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ALL OF THE ABOVE
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Detailed explanation-1: -James (1890) presented a bold proposal in The Principles of Psychology: emotions are the sensation of bodily changes, or as he put it, “the bodily changes follow directly the perception of the exciting fact, and that our feeling of the same changes as they occur IS the emotion” (Vol. 2, p.
Detailed explanation-2: -James argues that the sequence of events in experiencing emotion is: Emotion stimulus → Physiological Response Pattern → Affective Experience. The theory itself emphasizes how physiological arousal, with the exclusion of emotional behavior, is the determiner of emotional feelings.
Detailed explanation-3: -The James-Lange theory states that stimulating events trigger a physical reaction. The physical reaction is then labeled with a corresponding emotion. For example, if you run into a snake, your heart rate increases. James-Lange theory suggests that the increase in heart rate is what makes us realize we’re afraid.