THE PSYCHOLOGY OF EMOTIONS
PSYCHOLOGY MOTIVATION AND EMOTION
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Question
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With which of the following would Zajonc most likely agree?
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Some emotions go the amygdala without passing through the cortex.
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Our physiological arousal to different emotional stimuli are different enough that we can tell what we are feeling by our physiological arousal alone.
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Highly emotional people may personalize events as being directed at them.
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Physiological arousal must have a cognitive label in order for us to interpret what we are feeling.
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Physiological arousal and our subjective response to an emotional stimulus happen at the same time.
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -Zajonc-LeDoux Theory of Emotion Certain emotions can happen instantly without an active cognitive appraisal. For example, someone can be startled by the bark of a dog before labeling it as a threat (Meiselman, 2016).
Detailed explanation-2: -Studies in humans have confirmed the key role of the amygdala in fear conditioning as well as in various forms of psychopathological behavior [13].
Detailed explanation-3: -These results suggest that the amygdala may contribute to emotional experience by setting the appropriate preconditions for its expression: enhancing attention and associated perceptual encoding of emotional events, and thereby increasing their subjective salience.
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