PSYC 1300 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Social Control, Twin, Social Facilitation
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Emotions are a mix of: bodily arousal (heart pounding, expressive behaviors (quickened face, conscious experience, including thoughts ( is this a kidnapping" and feelings (panic, fear, joy) Emotion: a response of the whole organism, involving (1) physiological arousal, (2) expressive behaviors, and (3) conscious experience, patterns of reactions that involve physiological changes, expressive behaviors, and cognitive interpretations. Does cognition always come before emotion? (did i think about a kidnapping threat before i reacted emotionally?) Historical emotion theories: james- lange theory. Proposes that physiological change precedes and causes emotion. The theory that our experience of emotion is our awareness of our physiological responses to emotion-arousing stimuli. First comes conscious awareness, then the feeling. We cry before we"re sad, lash out because we"re angry, tremble because we"re afraid. James and lange would"ve guessed that we notice our racing heart and then, shaking with fright, felt the whoosh of emotion that the feeling of fear followed our body"s response: cannon-bard theory.
