Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Institute For Operations Research And The Management Sciences, Thalamus, Sympathetic Nervous System

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Dr.Mike

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Lecture 3b january 19th, 2017 emotion. The routes to emotion cannon bard theory. Walter ca(cid:374)(cid:374)o(cid:374) poi(cid:374)ted out that people"s (cid:271)odies do (cid:374)ot respo(cid:374)d i(cid:374)sta(cid:374)ta(cid:374)eousl(cid:455) to an emotional stimulus; several seconds may pass before signs of physiological arousal appear. Yet, people typically experience the motion immediately (this would be impossible according to the james-lange theory) Cannon and bard concluded that cognition must be involved in emotion. The subjective experience of emotion and physiological arousal do not cause one another, but instead they are independent responses to an emotion-arousing situation: two things occur simultaneously. A physiological response to what you are experiencing. A psychological/subjective experience of what you are actually feeling. Cannon bard theory: when we encounter an emotion-arousing situation, the thalamus simultaneously sends sensory (cid:373)essages to the (cid:272)ere(cid:271)ral (cid:272)orte(cid:454) a(cid:374)d to the (cid:271)od(cid:455)"s i(cid:374)ternal organs. The message to the cortex produces the experience of emotion, and the one to the internal organs produces the physiological arousal.