PSYCHOLOGY OF EMOTIONS

THE PSYCHOLOGY OF EMOTIONS

STATES OF CONSCIOUSNESS

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What did William James theorise?
A
States of Consciousness
B
Processing of Consciousness
C
Streams of Consciousness
D
Altered States of Consciousness
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -The term ‘stream of consciousness’ was first coined by psychologist William James in The Principles of Psychology in 1893, when he describes it thusly: “consciousness as an uninterrupted ‘flow’: ‘a ‘river’ or a ‘stream’ are the metaphors by which it is most naturally described.

Detailed explanation-2: -Stream of consciousness is a narrative style that tries to capture a character’s thought process in a realistic way. It’s an interior monologue, but it’s also more than that.

Detailed explanation-3: -His belief in the connection between mind and body led him to develop what has become known as the James-Lange Theory of emotion, which posits that human experience of emotion arises from physiological changes in response to external events.

Detailed explanation-4: -The term “stream of consciousness” was first used by William James, Henry’s brother, the founder of pragmatism. He did not use it to describe novels but the workings of the mind.

Detailed explanation-5: -Ineffability.-The handiest of the marks by which I classify a state of mind as mystical is negative. Noetic quality.-Although so similar to states of feeling, mystical states seem to those who experience them to be also states of knowledge. Transiency.-Mystical states cannot be sustained for long. Passivity. 04-Jun-2018

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