Chapter 13: Emotion

what is emotion?

• Response of the whole organism:
• Physioloigcal
• Expresive behaviors
• Conscious experience

THEORIES of Emotion

• James-Lange Theory
• Cannon-Bard Theory
• Two-Factor Theory

JAMES-lANGE tHEORY

• Conscious experience of emotion 
• Results perception of autonomic aurosal
• Fear followed by response

Cannon-Bard Theory

• Emotions originate in subcortical areas of the brains
• Response as you experience fear

Two-factor Theory

• In order to experience emotion you must:
• Be physcially aroused
• Cognitivly label arousal

Autonomic Nervous System

• Controls internal organs
• Ex. energy: liver pours sugar into blood
• Ex. pupiles dialte to light