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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?
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