AP Psychology Unit 9 - Theories of Emotion

emotions

a response of the whole organism, involving (1) physiological arousal, (2) expressive behaviors, and (3) conscious experience

James-Lange Theory

the theory that our experience of emotion is our awareness of our physiological responses to emotion-arousing stimuli

Cannon-Bard Theory

the theory that an emotion-arousing stimulus simultaneously triggers (1) physiological responses and (2) the subjective experience of emotion

two-factor theory

the Schachter-Singer theory that to experience emotion one must (1) be physically aroused and (2) cognitively label the arousal

spillover effect

arousal response to one event spills over into our response to the next event

Robert Zajonc

motivation; believes that we invent explanations to label feelings

Joseph LeDoux

psychologist who believed that some of our emotional reactions involve no deliberate thinking and cognition is not always necessary for emotion

Richard Lazarus

Cognitive appraisal sometimes without our awareness defines emotion

sympathetic nervous system

What part of the nervous system triggers many of the physical responses we have when we experience an emotion?

polygraph

a machine, commonly used in attempts to detect lies, that measures several of the physiological responses accompanying emotion (such as perspiration and cardiovascular and breathing changes).

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Do different emotions have very different patterns of activation in the brain?