PSYC 100 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Autonomic Nervous System, Sympathetic Nervous System, Electrodermal Activity

• School: McGill University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100
• Professor: Catherine Montgomery

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Most writers at his time argued that experience of emotions is response to emotionally exciting event and emotional experience generates emotion related bodily changes. William james said sequence was: a) exciting event b) bodily responses to that event: perception of these bodily response as experience of emotion. He argued every emotion involves distinct (cid:1688)bodily reverberation(cid:1689) in glands that make up the neuroendocrine system in ans and in muscles by which action is produced. He arrived at this view through thought experiments and he argued that if you took psychophysiological sensations out you will be left with intellectual state and emotion will be absent. Founder of american psychology and influenced school of pragmatism whose adherents include james dewey. Varieties of religious experiences: he found religious conversions of emotions are the causes. They are prime-movers by which people could change their identities and lives.