Psychology 1000 Lecture 7: lecture 7
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Emotion: theories of emotion, brain structures, lateralization. *look at the position of bodily arousal in all these theories: common sense theory, james-lange theory, arousal is necessary for emotion, it"s important and happens before emotion. Note: ideal test: evaluate patient with bilateral facial paralysis (can"t move muscles in both sides of face, patient (f. p. ) could not display emotions, but did report feeling emotional, keillor et al. (2002) Cognitive-affective theories: lazarus"s theory, mostly for stress responses, appraisal: trying to determine what you can do in the situation, that"s ultimately going to determine the bodily arousal. If you have a label, you can come up with the appropriate tag (even if it"s misattributed: but, no emotion at all if subjects had been informed about the effects of appropriate groups epinephrine. If you"re told that your heart rate is racing, etc, they attribute the.