PSYC 1200 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Social Exchange Theory, Group Polarization, Fritz Heider

• School: Douglas College
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1200
• Professor: Parhar, Karenjit Kaur

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12. 1 emotion: a response of the whole organism, involving (1) physiological arousal, (2) expressive behaviors, and (3) conscious experience. James-lange theory: the theory that our experience of emotion is our awareness of our physiological responses to emotion-arousing stimuli. We experience emotion after we experience a physical response. Cannon-bard theory: the theory that an emotion-arousing stimulus simultaneously triggers (1) physiological responses and (2) the subjective experience of emotion. Both two-factor theory: the schachter-singer theory that to experience emotion one must (1) be physically aroused and (2) cognitively label the arousal. Exuberant infants and alert, energetic adults are especially likely to show high levels of brain activity in the left frontal lobe. Zajonc believes that we actually have many emotional reactions apart from, or even before, our interpretations of a situation. Sympathetic division of your autonomic nervous system (ans) mobilizes your body for action, directing your adrenal glands to release the stress hormones epinephrine (adrenaline) and norepinephrine (noradrenaline).