PSYC 1000 Chapter Notes -Joseph E. Ledoux, Stanley Schachter, Walter Bradford Cannon

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Textbook: psychology tenth edition in modules authored by david g. myers. Emotions are a mix of bodily, arousal (heart pounding), expressive behaviours, and conscious experience. James-lange theory: arousal comes before emotion: cry because we are sad, lash out because we are angry, tremble because we are afraid. We feel sorry because we cry, angry because we strike, afraid because we tremble. James and lange would say that i noticed my heart racing and then shaking with fright, felt the whoosh of emotion. Feeling of fear followed body"s response: cannon-bard theory: arousal and emotion occur simultaneously, physiologist walter cannon (1871-1945, philip bard, bodily responses and experienced emotions occur separately but simultaneously, means my heart began pounding as i experienced fear. The emotion-triggering stimulus traveled to my sympathetic nervous system, causing my body"s arousal. At the same time, it traveled to my brain"s cortex, causing my awareness of my emotion: challenged by studies of people with severed spinal cords.

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