PSYCHOLOGY OF EMOTIONS

THE PSYCHOLOGY OF EMOTIONS

THEORY OF EMOTION

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
As you run from the attacking tiger your sympathetic nervous system is activated. Your brain evaluates your surroundings and determines from the large animal racing toward you that you are in fact afraid, and not excited.
A
James-Lange
B
Cannon-Bard
C
Schacter-Singer
D
None of the above
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -As you run from the attacking tiger, your sympathetic nervous system is activated. Your brain evaluates your surroundings and determines from the large animal racing toward you that you are, in fact, afraid, and not excited.

Detailed explanation-2: -Developed by Stanley Schachter and Jerome Singer in the 1960s, the two-factor theory of emotion, also known as the Schachter-Singer theory, proposes our experience of emotions depends on two things: physiological arousal and our cognitive interpretation of the arousal.

Detailed explanation-3: -Cognitive Appraisal Theory Richard Lazarus was a pioneer in this area of emotion, and this theory is often referred to as the Lazarus theory of emotion. The cognitive appraisal theory asserts that your brain first appraises a situation, and the resulting response is an emotion.

Detailed explanation-4: -The James-Lange theory of emotion asserts that emotions arise from physiological arousal.

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