Tuesday, March 4, 2014

Emotion

James Lang Theory of Emotion: experience of emotion is awareness of physiological responses to emotion arousing stimuli. We feel emotion because of biological changes caused by stress. 

Cannon Bard Theory of Emotion: emotion arousing stimuli simultaneously trigger physiological responses, subjective emotion. 

Two Factor Theory: To experience emotion, one must own our emotion.





Lie Detectors: Polygraph machine used to detect lies. Measures changes in blood pressure and heart rate.



Catharsis: emotional release, feel good, do good phenomenon.

Adaption Level Phenomenon: Tendency to form judgments relative to a neutral level. 

Relative Deprivation: Perception that one is worse off than those whom they compare themselves to.




2 comments:

  1. I absolutely love the picture because it pretty much summarizes what we went over quite simply. I'm going to have to steal this and stash it somewhere for better understanding. I feel the odd one out is the James-Lange thoery and just because it seems a bit backwards. i absolutely agree with Cannon-Bard because we tend to fear and have arousal together. Then Schachter because it is normal to label your emotions, i do it all the time.

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  2. I think I'm more intrigued by the Cannon Bard Theory of Emotion, being that 9 times out of 10 my reactions do correspond with one another simultaneously however I've often been in "scary" situations where I've been told I had a delayed reaction.

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