Running head: Module F Test
Module F Test
Rosa Stewart
PSYCHOLOGY 1101 – Module F Test
Dr. Ewing
July 6, 2013
Theories of Emotions
Have someone ever made you mad, sad, or just put you in shock moment all of sudden? Well it have happen to me serve time in my life. When someone suddenly make you fill bad, sad, or shock you, it makes your facial movement changes and that causes the brain to work differently. According to the facial feedback theory, emotion is the experience of changes in our facial muscles. There are serve primary emotions- happiness, surprise, sadness, fear, disgust, and anger and other theory which sends emotions to the brain. James-Lange, Cannon-Bard, Schachter-Singer, and Lazarus theory, states that a thought must come before any emotion or physiological arousal; meaning something happen causing you to be in fear. Example, my husband comes home and I am down stairs in the laundry room and didn’t hear him come in and he starts yelling my name and that scares me and my heart starts beating really fast, that means the arousal came from him yelling my name. In everyone life someone or something have made you have some type of emotion changes, whether if it was fear, sadness, or just you being happy about a letter you receive.
Of course you agree with me; that we all have experience heart racing, muscle tension, and physiological emotions at one point in our admirable life. James- Lange theory proposes that emotions happen as a result of these, rather than being the cause of them, causing the body to prepare use for what to come. Emotion’s part keeps our mind focus on the prides, while slowing the process down (www.changingminds.org/explanations). Cannon-Bard theory we mentally process emotions and physically respond simultaneously, but not at one time. I experience a bodily change, one day I was doing my daily walk around the neighborhood and spotted three dogs and my hearted started racing at that time and I began to speed up on my walking. That event cause my body to change to a simultaneously emotion, because my muscles tense up and my mind process mentally; causing me to think the dogs would ran after me.
Although, researchers found out that contributions to the fields of neurology that when you walking in alley and spots a dog may cause a spinal cord injuries do to the body sensory less intense emotions (www.psywww.com). James-Lange theory, which researchers are usually talking about when they refer to the James-Lange theory, is that emotions occur only after visceral reactions. If emotion followed directly from perception of visceral responses (he argued) the dogs should no longer show emotions. However, the