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Question 1

Define Emotion?

Answer 1

Emotion = A response of the whole organism, involving (1) physiological arousal, (2) expressive behaviors, and (3) conscious experience

Question 2

James-Lange theory states?

Answer 2

That our experience of emotion is our awareness of our physiological responses to emotion-arousing stimuli

Question 3

What is the study done by Hohmann?

Answer 3

1. ) Interviewed 25 soldiers who suffered injuries to the spinal cord
2. )Divided into 5 groups based on how high the injury, the higher the less feedback they get from their body

Question 4

What did the Soliders report about their high or low injury?

Answer 4

1. ) Those with the highest injuries reported that they had the least strong emotions during emotion provoking events.
2. ) They reported having mental emotions but not physical ones

Question 5

Those who suffered injuries that left them paralyzed from the neck down responded that their emotions were?

Answer 5

were much less intense which would seem to support the James-Lange Theory

Question 6

What is the Cannon-Bard Theory?

Answer 6

The theory that an emotion arousing stimulus simultaneously triggers (1) physiological responses and (2) the subjective experiences of emotion

Question 7

the Thalamic theory of emotions is?

Answer 7

Believed that the thalamus played a key role as it gathered sensory input and sent it “down” to the sympathetic nervous system and “up” to the cerebral cortex at the same time.