PSYCH101 Study Guide - Final Guide: Carroll Izard, Dispositional Attribution, Normative Social Influence

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH101
• Professor: Jennifer Tomaszczyk

Document Summary

Emotions are a mix of bodily arousal (heart pounding), expressive behaviors (quickened pace), and conscious experience including thoughts (is this a kidnapping) and feelings (fear, joy). Cannon bard theory: arousal and emotion occur simultaneously. He said bodily responses are too similar and too slow to change to cause different emotions. So for example, the pounding heart does not cause fear, nor does fear cause a pounding heart, they occur together. Cannon bard theory challenged by the fact that spinal cord injuries in lower region don"t exhibit changes, but injuries in higher areas patients report less intense emotion but greater physiological emotional intensity in the face region. Researchers now agree emotion also involves cognition. Schachter and singer believed physical reactions combined with thoughts create emotion. Two factor theory: emotion consists of physical arousal and cognitive appraisal. Spillover effect: arousal carries on from one event to the next. Point to remember: arousal fuels emotion, and cognition channels it.