PSY 1101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: Sympathetic Nervous System, T Cell, Behavioral Medicine

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 1101
• Professor: Kenneth Campbell

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Conscious experience, including thoughts ( is this kidnapping ?) and feelings of (panic, fear, joy) Does cognition always come before emotion (did i think about a kidnapping threat before i reacted emotionally) James-lange theory: the theory that our experience of emotion is our awareness of 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. Cannon bard theory: the theory that emotion arousing stimulus simultaneously triggers: physiological responses, the subjective experience of emotion. The body"s responses - heart rate, perspiration and body temperature - are too similar, and they change too slowly, to cause the different emotions. If our bodily responses and emotional experiences occur simultaneously and one does not affect the other, then people who suffer spinal cord injuries should not notice a difference in emotions. Most researchers now agree that our emotions also involve cognition.