Blair-Broker, Thinking About Psychology, 3e, Module 27

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emotions
Whole-organism responses, involving physiological arousal, expressive behaviors, and conscious experience.
William James (1842-1910)
Psychologist who believed our awareness of physiological responses leads to our experience of emotion (see James-Lange theory).
Carl Lange (1834-1900)
Danish physiologist who proposed a theory of emotion similar to, and at about the same time as, James's theory that awareness of physiological responses leads to experiences of emotion (see James-Lange theory).
James-Lange theory
The theory that we experience emotion because we are aware of our bodily response to an emotion-arousing stimulus.
Walter Cannon (1871-1945)
American physiologist who, with Philip Bard, concluded that physiological arousal and emotional experience occur simultaneously (see Cannon-Bard theory).
Cannon-Bard theory
The theory that an emotion-arousing stimulus simultaneously triggers physiological responses and the subjective experience of emotion.
Stanley Schachter [SHACK-ter] (1922-1997)
American psychologist who, with Jerome Singer, concluded that emotion requires a cognitive label of physiological arousal (see two-factor theory).
two-factor theory
The theory that to experience emotion we must be physically aroused and must cognitively label the arousal.
Robert Zajonc [ZI-yence] (1923-2008)
American psychologist who concluded that some emotional reactions involve no deliberate thinking; he believed that cognition is not always necessary for emotion.
Richard Lazarus (1922-2002)
American psychologist who concluded that some emotional responses do not require conscious thought but still involve some kind of unconscious cognitive appraisal.
autonomic [aw-tuh-NAHM-ik] nervous system
The division of the peripheral nervous system that controls the glands and muscles of the internal organs; its subdivisions are the sympathetic (arousing) division and the parasympathetic (calming) division.
display rules
The cultural rules governing how and when a person may express emotion.
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