PSYCH 2010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Autonomic Nervous System, Sympathetic Nervous System, Amygdala
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4/10/14: organized psychological and physiological reactions to changes in one"s relationship to. Emotions the world: these reactions are, partly inner or subjective experience (psychological, partly measureable patterns of behavior and physiological arousal. James-lange: our awareness of our peripheral responses is emotion, canon-bard, emotions come directly from the brain, cognitive theories (two-factor theory, we interpret events outside and inside our body, it is these interpretations that leads to emotions. James-lange theory: physiological activity precedes the emotional experience, ex: sight of oncoming car (perception of stimulus, physiological arousal first. Cannon-bard theory: proposed that an emotion-triggering stimulus and the body"s arousal take place simultaneously, ex: sight of oncoming car (perception of stimulus, physiological arousal and emotional arousal occur at the same time. Pounding heart and fear would occur simultaneously. Two factor theory: suggests our physiology and cognitions create emotions, emotions have two factors physical arousal and cognitive label, ex.
