PSYC 1000 Chapter Notes - Chapter 35: Sympathetic Nervous System, Walter Bradford Cannon, Autonomic Nervous System
7 Oct 2014
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Cognition and emotion: emotions are a mix of bodily arousal; expressive behaviours; and conscious experience, including thoughts and feelings. Emotion a response of the whole organism, involving physiological arousal, expressive behaviours, and conscious experience. Historical emotion theories: james-lange theory: arousal comes before emotion, common sense tells most of us that we cry because we are sad, lash out when we are angry, tremble because we are afraid. First comes awareness, then the feeling: but to william james, this common sense view of emotion had things backwards. The body"s responses are too similar, and they change too slowly, to cause the different emotions, said. Cannon: cannon and bard concluded that our bodily responses and experienced emotions occur separately but simultaneously. Whether we fear the man behind us on the dark street depends entirely on whether we interpret his actions as threatening or friendly.
