PSYC 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Polygraph, Relative Deprivation, Botulinum Toxin

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1010
• Professor: Heather Jenkin

Document Summary

Emotion- a response of the whole organism, involving (1) physiological arousal, (2) expressive behaviors, and (3) conscious experience. Emotions are a mix of: bodily arousal (heart pounding), expressive behaviors (quickened pace), conscious experience, including thoughts ( is this a kidnapping? ) and feelings of (panic, fear, joy). The puzzle for psychologists is figuring out how these 3 pieces fit together. James- lange theory- (the theory that our experience of emotion is our awareness of our physiological responses to emotion- arousing stimuli). Common sense tells most of us that we cry because we are sad, lash out because we are angry, tremble because we are afraid. But to pioneering psychologist william james, this commonsense view of emotion had things backward. Rather, we feel sorry because we cry, angry because we strike, and afraid because we tremble. james idea was also proposed by. Danish physiologist carl lange, and so is called the james- lange theory.