PY 101 Chapter 31: Module 31

• School: University of Alabama
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PY 101
• Professor: Tammi Carroll

Document Summary

Emotions- feelings that generally have both physiological and cognitive elements and that influence behavior. James-lange theory of emotion- the proposal that humans experience emotions as a result of physiological changes that produce specific sensation o. The brain interprets these sensations as specific kinds of emotional experience. Cannon-bard theory of emotion-the belief that both physiological arousal and emotional experience are produced simultaneously by the same nerve stimulus o. Rejects the view that physiological arousal alone leads to the perception of emotion o. Assumes that both physiological arousal and the emotional experience are produced simultaneously by the same nerve stimulus-- emanates from the thalamus in the brain. Schachter-singer theory of emotion- the belief that emotions are determined jointly by a nonspecific kind of physiological arousal and its interpretation, based on environmental cues o. Purpose of the experiment was to determine how the participants would react emotionally to the confederate"s behavior.