PSYA01H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Facial Feedback Hypothesis, Autonomic Nervous System, Multidimensional Scaling
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Multidimensional scaling: asking people to rate the similarity of dozens of emotional experiences to map those experiences. Maps don"t just show how close things are to each other: they also reveal the dimensions on which those things vary. Emotion a positive or negative experiences that is associated with a particular pattern of physiological activity. James-lange theory of emotion stimuli trigger activity in the autonomic nervous system, which in turn produces an emotional experience in the brain. Emotional experience is the consequences and not the cause of our physiological reactions to objects and events in the world. Cannon-bard theory of emotion a stimulus simultaneously triggers activity in the autonomic system and emotional experience in the brain. Schachter and singer"s two-factor theory of emotion emotions are inferences about the causes of physiological arousal. Suggests that stimuli trigger general physiological arousal whose cause the brain interprets, and this interpretation leads to emotional experience.
