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Emotions
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3 theories of emotions
Cannon-Bard Theory
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First, he suggested, people can experience physiological reactions linked to emotions without actually feeling those emotions.
For example, your heart might race because you have been exercising and not because you are afraid.
Cannon also suggested that emotional responses occur much too quickly for them to be simply products of physical states. When you encounter a danger in the environment, you will often feel afraid before you start to experience the physical symptoms associated with fear
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Being more specifically, it is suggested that emotions result when the thalamus sends a message to the brain in response to a stimulus, resulting in a physiological reaction. At the same time, the brain also receives signals triggering the emotional experience. Cannon and Bard’s theory suggests that the physical and psychological experience of emotion happen at the same time and that one does not cause the other.
Schachter-Singer Theory
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Schachter and Singer’s theory draws on both the James-Lange theory and the Cannon-Bard theory of emotion.
James-Lange Theory
The James-Lange theory is one of the best-known examples of a physiological theory of emotion. Independently proposed by psychologist William James and physiologist Carl Lange.
the James-Lange theory of emotion suggests that emotions occur as a result of physiological reactions to events.
when you see an external stimulus that leads to a physiological reaction. Your emotional reaction is dependent upon how you interpret those physical reactions.
For example, suppose you are walking in the woods and you see a grizzly bear. You begin to tremble, and your heart begins to race.
According to this theory of emotion, you are not trembling because you are frightened. Instead, you feel frightened because you are trembling.
3 main components
Subjective Experience
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While we have broad labels for emotions such as "angry," "sad," or "happy," your own experience of these emotions may be much more multi-dimensional, hence subjective.
Plus, we don't always experience pure forms of each emotion. Mixed emotions over different events or situations in our lives are common. When faced with starting a new job, you might feel both excited and nervous.
Getting married or having a child might be marked by a wide variety of emotions ranging from joy to anxiety. These emotions might occur simultaneously, or you might feel them one after another.
Physiological Response
If you've ever felt your stomach lurch from anxiety or your heart palpate with fear, then you realize that emotions also cause strong physiological reactions.
Many of the physiological responses you experience during an emotion, such as sweaty palms or a racing heartbeat, are regulated by the sympathetic nervous system, a branch of the autonomic nervous system.
The autonomic nervous system controls involuntary body responses, such as blood flow and digestion.
The sympathetic nervous system is charged with controlling the body's fight-or-flight reactions. When facing a threat, these responses automatically prepare your body to flee from danger or face the threat head-on.
the amygdala is a part of the brain that is part of the limbic system, it plays an important role in emotion and fear in particular.
when people are shown threatening images, the amygdala becomes activated.
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Behavioral Response
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Our ability to accurately understand these expressions is tied to what psychologists call emotional intelligence, and these expressions play a major part in our overall body language.
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In psychology, emotion is often defined as a complex state of feeling that results in physical and psychological changes that influence thought and behavior, physiological arousal, expressive behaviors, and conscious experience.