PSYC 1000 Chapter Notes - Chapter 35: Walter Bradford Cannon, Joseph E. Ledoux, Robert Zajonc

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1000
• Professor: Dan Meegan

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For psychologists to figure out how these three pieces fit together, they need to answer 2 big questions. The theory that our experienced of emotion is our awareness of our physiological responses to emotion- arousing stimuli. The theory that an emotion-arousing stimulus simultaneously triggers: physiological responses, emotion. Bodily arousal & emotion at the same time. Challenged by studies of people with severed spinal cords- wwii veterans. Those with lower-spine injuries who lost sensation in their leg reported no change in emotions. Those with high-spinal cord injuries who felt nothing below the neck, did report changes in emotion. Lumps in the throat when crying, getting choked up when saying goodbye, watching an emotional movie) ** most researchers today agree that emotions involve cognition. Whether we fear the man behind us on the dark street depends entirely on whether we interpret his actions as threatening or friendly.