Explanation of Emotion

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Explanation of Emotion Rosalyn Romero-Donis Everest University Online PSY2012-2011 Explanation of Emotion Explanation of Emotion | Describe the Explanation of emotion | Discuss whether you believe this explanation of emotion is true or false and briefly describe why | Function of Emotion | Emotions serve several purposes in our lives. They prepare us for action, they shape our future behavior, and they help us interact more effectively with others. | True, emotions prepare us to deal with every situation. With every joy there is a smile and even tears, with every heartbreak there is sadness and anger, with every success there is pride and fulfillment. Life is full of emotions, no matter what is involved. | James-Lange theory of emotion | The belief that the emotional experience is a reaction to bodily events occurring as a result of an external situation | True, there are some who are easily fool by “crocodile tears” or group pressure. | Cannon-Bard theory of emotion | The belief that both physiological arousal and emotional experience are produced simultaneously by the same nerve stimulus. | I don’t know much about nerve stimulus but I do know that seduction (emotional experience) goes hand-in-hand with arousal, which ends in a better emotional experience than the one you started with. | Schachter-Singer theory of emotion | The belief that emotions are determined jointly by a nonspecific kind of physiological arousal and its interpretation based on environmental. | This too could be true; the environment always plays a big role in all that we do. | Define Emotion: Feelings that generally have both physiological and cognitive elements and the influence behavior. Reference Feldman, R. S. (2011). Explanation of Emotion. In R. S. Feldman, Essentials of Understanding Psychology (9th ed., pp. 306-311). Americas, NY: McGraw-Hill
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