Jessica Tanner
Chapter 11: Emotions, Stress, and Health
I) Theories of Emotions
A) Components of emotion
1) Emotions are a mix of:
(a) physiological arousal (heart pounding)
(b) Expressive behaviors (quickened pace)
(c) Conscience experience (includes thoughts then later feelings)
2) Two controversies
(a) Chicken and egg
(b) Does cognitive precede thinking?
3) James-Lange Theory
4) Cannon-Bard Theory
II) Embodied Emotion
A) Emotions and the Autonomic Nervous System
1) What Physiological changes accompany emotions?
B) Phsiological Similarities Among Specific Emotions
1) Do different emotions activate different physiological reponses?
C) Physiological Differences Among Specific Emotions
D) Cognition and Emotion
1) To experience emotions, must we consciously interpret and label them?
(a) Cognition Can Define Emotion
(i) Spillover Effect
(b) Cognition does not always precede emotion
III) Expressed Emotion
