PSY 1101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 13: Walter Bradford Cannon, Stanley Schachter, Sympathetic Nervous System

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 1101
• Professor: Najwa Haddad

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Emotions: a response of the whole organism, involving (1) physiological arousal, (2) expressive behaviours, and (3) conscious experience. James-lange theory: the theory that our experience of emotion is our awareness of our physiological response to emotion-arousing stimuli (william james and carl lange). James and lange believe that you must first perceive your body"s arousal. It wouldn"t make sense because a racing heart could signal fear, anger or love. Cannon-bard theory: the theory that an emotion-arousing stimulus simultaneously triggers (1) physiological responses and (2) the subjective experience of emotion. Walter cannon and phillip bard believed that emotions occur separately and simultaneously from the body"s arousal. Stanley schachter and jerome singer proposed the two-factor theory (to experience emotion, one must (1) be physically aroused and (2) cognitively label the arousal. Like james and lange, they believed that our experience of emotion grows from our awareness of our body"s arousal. Like cannon and bard, they believed that emotions are physiologically similar.