PSY 1101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: Botulinum Toxin, Behavioral Medicine, Egocentrism

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 1101
• Professor: Mark Dallas

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Emotions: a mix of bodily arousal (heart pounding); expressive behaviors (quickened pace); and conscious experience, including thoughts (is this a kidnaping?) and feelings (panic, fear, joy) We feel sorry because we cry, angry because we strike, afraid because we tremble . James" idea was also proposed by danish physiologist carl lange, and so is called the james-lange theory. My feeling of fear followed my body"s response. Physiologist walter cannon disagreed with james and lange. The body"s responses-heart rate, perspiration, and body temperature-are too similar, and they change too slowly, to cause the different emotions, said. He and later philip bard, concluded that our bodily responses and experienced emotions occur separately but simultaneously. According to the cannon-bard theory, my heart began pounding as i experienced fear. The emotion-triggering stimulus traveled to my sympathetic nervous system, causing my bodys arousal. At the same time, it traveled to my brains cortex, causing my awareness of my emotion.