1. Key Theories of Emotion
Ap Psychology
Michelle Hernandez

2. Emotions Emotions are a mixture of three components :
Physiological arousal (heart pounding)
Expressive behavior (quicken pace)
Conscious experience ( include thoughts and feelings.)
Darwin.
 Darwin believed that body movements and facial expressions (body language, or nonverbal communication) are used by members of a species to communicate meaning.
He suggested that although emotional expressions are initially learned behavior, they eventually evolve to become innate in a species because they have survival value..

3. Theories of Emotions James-Lange theory of emotion
The theory states our experience of emotion is our awareness of our physiological response to an emotion-arousing stimulus.
William James is a psychologist and Carl Lange proposed that we feel emotions after we notice our physiological response.

4. Theories of Emotions Cannon-Bard theory of emotion
The theory states an emotion-arousing stimulus is transmitted simultaneously triggers : physiological arousal and the subject experience emotion.
This theory implied that your heart beings pounding as you experience fear.
They believed that we feel emotions at the same time that our bodies respond.

5. Theories of emotion Schachter-Singer theory of emotion
A two-stage theory stating that for an emotion to occur, there must be (1) physiological arousal and (2) cognitively label the arousal.
This theory focuses on the interplay of thinking and feeling, not the timing of feelings.

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7. Theories of Emotions

8. Facial Feedback Theory
According to the facial feedback theory, emotion is the experience of changes in our facial muscles. 
In other words, when we smile, we then experience pleasure, or happiness.  When we frown, we then experience sadness.  it is the changes in our facial muscles that cue our brains and provide the basis of our emotions.  Just as there are an unlimited number of muscle configurations in our face, so to are there a seemingly unlimited number of emotions.

9. Lazarus Theory
states that a thought must come before any emotion or physiological arousal.  In other words, you must first think about your situation before you can experience an emotion. 

10. 2. The two-factor theory of emotion suggests that
Question 1
Question 2
The psychologists who claimed that physiological arousal and emotion are experienced simultaneously are
 Two and Factor
 Stanley Schachter and Jerome Singer
 Sigmund Freud
 William James and Carl Lange
 Walter Cannon and Philip Bard
2. The two-factor theory of emotion suggests that
 physiological arousal precedes emotion
 emotion depends on physiological arousal and cognitive processing
 emotion is simultaneously linked with physiological arousal
 two psychologists developed it
Correct answers ( move the box)
Question 1 – E Question 2- B

11. Who developed the James-Lange theory of emotion?
Question 3
Question 4
Who developed the James-Lange theory of emotion?
 William James and James Lange
 Carl James and Thomas Lange
 William James and Carl Lange
 Carl James and William Lange
The theory stating that physiological arousal precedes the experience of emotion is attributed to
 Walter Cannon and Philip Bard
 Richard Lazarus
 Charles Darwin
 William James and Carl Lange
 Stanley Schachter and Jerome Singer
3. C D

12. The James-Lange theory The Cannon-Bard theory
Question 5
Question 6
According to the Cannon-Bard theory, what is the relationship between physiological arousal and the experience of emotion?
People experience emotion because they experience physiological arousal
The experience of emotion and physiological arousal occur simultaneously
People have physiological arousal because they experience emotion
None of the above
 The statement We are afraid because we tremble is explained by which theory of emotion?
Darwin’s theory
The two-factor theory
The James-Lange theory
The Cannon-Bard theory
5. B 6. c

13. What is the process of the James-Lange theory of emotion?
Question 7
Question 8
What is the process of the James-Lange theory of emotion?
 Event - emotion - physiological response
 Event - physiological response - emotion
 Emotion - physiological response - event
 Physiological response - emotion - event
Jimmy just finished the Detroit marathon and is elated with excitement. As he walked over to his girlfriend, who he has not known for very long, he immediately tells her that he loves her. Later that day, Jimmy realized that he made a mistake by telling his girlfriend that he was in love with her. His dad later explained that all of the excitement of finishing the marathon must have confused him. Which theory of emotion does this provide a problem for?
James-Lange theory
Cannon-Bard theory
 Two-factor theory
7. D C

14. Question 9
Question 10
You are walking down a dark alley late at night.  You hear footsteps behind you and your eyes widen, your teeth clench and your brain interprets these facial changes as the expression of fear.  Therefore you experience the emotion of fear.
Facial feedback Theory
Two factor
Cannon –brad Theory
Lazarus thory
You are walking down a dark alley late at night.  You hear footsteps behind you and you think it may be a mugger so you begin to tremble, your heart beats faster, and your breathing deepens and at the same time experience fear.
James-lange Theory
Two-Factor theory
Cannon-brad Theory
Lazarus Thoery
9. A D

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