module 41

Question 1

Emotion

Answer 1

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

Question 2

James-Lange Theory

Answer 2

the theory that our experience of emotion is our awareness of our physiological responses to an emotion-arousing stimulus: stimulus → arousal → emotion.

Question 3

cannon-bard theory

Answer 3

the theory that an emotion-arousing stimulus simultaneously triggers (1) physiological responses and (2) the subjective experience of emotion.

Question 4

Two-Factor theory

Answer 4

the Schachter-Singer theory that to experience emotion one must (1) be physically aroused and (2) cognitively label the arousal.

Question 5

Polygraph

Answer 5

a machine used in attempts to detect lies that measures several of the physiological responses (such as perspiration, heart rate, and breathing changes) accompanying emotion.

Question 6

William James

Answer 6

pioneering psychologist, believed that emotions result from attrition to our bodily activity.

Question 7

Carl lange

Answer 7

proposed the same ideas as James, was a danish physiologist.

Question 8

Walter Cannon

Answer 8

was a physiologist that disagreed with the James-Lange Theory, The body’s responses—heart rate, perspiration, and body temperature—are too similar, and they change too slowly, to cause the different emotions, said Cannon

Question 9

Philip Bard

Answer 9

concluded that 1159 our bodily responses and experienced emotions occur separately but simultaneously.

Question 10

Robert Zajonc

Answer 10

contended that we actually have many emotional reactions apart from, or even before our conscious interpretation of a situation

Question 11

Richard Lazarus

Answer 11

our brain processes vast amounts of information without our conscious awareness - some emotional responses do not require conscious thinking