PSY 101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 11: Carroll Izard, Autonomic Nervous System, Sympathetic Nervous System
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Of all the species, we seem the most emotional. Emotions are our body"s adaptive response; they exist not to give u interesting experiences but to enhance our survival. When we face challenges, emotions focus our attention and energize our action. Emotion a response of the whole organism, involving (1) physiological arousal (heart pounding), (2) expressive behaviors (quickened pace), and (3) consciously experienced thoughts (is this a kidnapping?) and feelings (a sense of fear, and later joy) James-lange theory the theory that our experience of emotion is our awareness of our physiological responses to emotion-arousing stimuli; first comes a distinct physiological response, then (as we observe that response) comes our experienced emotion. Cannon-bard theory the theory that an emotion-arousing stimulus simultaneously triggers (1) physiological responses and (2) the subjective experience/awareness of emotion. Two-factor theory the schachter-singer theory that to experience emotion one must (1) be physically aroused and (2) cognitively label the arousal.
