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Basic emotion theory

Definition

grew out of Charles Darwin's theory of emotion and suggests that distinct emotions and their associated cognitive, physiological, and motor responses unfold over time in a very predictable pattern without attention or intention

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James-Lange theory of emotions

Definition

1. An environmental event stimulates a sensory receptor (i.e., mechanoreceptors that respond to pressure changes) and the chemical signal is processed in the brain. 2. Your muscles and internal organs react to the environmental event, which is the emotion 3. Your muscles and internal organs would send information back to your brain that would result in conscious awareness of the emotion

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Cannon-Bard thalamic theory of emotions

Definition

Claims the following order of events and ascribes an important role to the thalamus in processing emotion: 1. We perceive the physical stimulus in the environment 2. We simultaneously produce bodily or facial expression changes and acknowledge the emotion