PSYC 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Vasomotor Center, Intensify, Institute For Operations Research And The Management Sciences

• School: Memorial University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1001
• Professor: markherbert

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James suggested that emotions: begin with the perception of an environmental situation or event, followed by, the elicitation of physiological and behavioural changes, which are then, processed by the cortex and converted into felt emotions. Believed that our physiological response to a stimulus occurs prior to, and provides the basis for, the experience of a particular emotion. James-lange theory of emotion: there is no emotion to experience unless it is driven by a physiological emotion rather than being their cause. James believed there is a place for cognition in emotion, lange believed that mental activity had little to do with emotion. Lange vasomotor centre was the centre of the emotions. Why do you run from a bear in the woods: common sense: because you are afraid, we see the bear, think danger, then have arousal and behavioural response (facial expression, running, etc. ) So, thinking comes first, leading to a response.