PSYC 355 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Stanley Schachter, Autonomic Nervous System, Parasympathetic Nervous System
24 Oct 2015
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Our brain decides which particular emotion is an appropriate response to the stimuli; the cerebral cortex simultaneously decides on the appropriate emotional experience and activates the autonomic nervous system to prepare the body. Stanley schachter proposed a cognitive interpretation of stimuli. The theory asserts that physiological arousal is non-specific, affecting only the intensity of a perceived emotion but does not determine which emotion we experience: polygraph is known as a lie detector. It is a device that measures several bodily responses such as heart rate and blood pressure: all negative emotions involve the same physiological response. How many emotions do we experience: one formulation of emotions posits that there are eight basic emotions, grouped in four pairs of opposites. According to plutchik, they are joy/sadness, affection/disgust, anger/fear and expectation/surprise- with all other emotions arising from this combination of this basic array: some researchers don"t agree with this number though. Facial expressions are mediated by muscles, cranial nerves and.
