PSYCHOLOGY OF EMOTIONS

Detailed explanation-1: -The Schachter-Singer two-factor theory suggests that physiological arousal receives cognitive labels as a function of the relevant context and that these two factors together result in an emotional experience. The limbic system is the brain’s emotional circuit, which includes the amygdala and the hippocampus.

Detailed explanation-2: -Emotional feelings accompany physiological changes; they neither produce nor result from such changes. Stimulus information from the environment is first processed by the thalamus. From there, the information branches off, with one pathway leading to the cerebral cortex, where it can be processed more carefully.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Cannon-Bard theory proposes that emotions and arousal occur at the same time. The James-Lange theory proposes the emotion is the result of arousal. Schachter and Singer’s two-factor model proposes that arousal and cognition combine to create emotion.

Detailed explanation-4: -Neck-level spinal cord injuries reduce the intensity with which people experience certain emotions. The activity of the prefrontal cortex plays a role in the emotions we experience. An emotion-arousing stimulus is simultaneously routed to the cortex and to the sympathetic nervous system.