AP Psychology 1.3 Motivation and Emotion

potential answers all right [mumbling] alright well there are several [a spider web]

different theories of our body's physical responses to external events

are linked to emotions such as fear personally we find that walking into a [two guys walk into a spider web and scream]

spider web triggers a pretty immediate physical and emotional response but er,

different story there. Is Joe's behavior explained by A cannon-bard theory, well

canon-bard theory states that we feel emotions like fear and experience [boy running and jumping into a pool]

psychological reactions like rapid heartbeat, simultaneously the question

tells us that Joe's heart began beating faster while he was in the street but [Joe crossing the road as a car zooms past]

the realization of fear came after he had crossed so not simultaneously cross

off A.. Is his behavior explained by B james-lange theory well james-lange

theory states that people feel emotion because they perceive their body's [Boy crying and thinking he must be sad]

physiological responses to an event well this one is close but it didn't take into account

that Joe didn't recognize the fact that he was feeling fear until after he had [Joe working in a lab]

crossed the street and thought about it so we can cross off B from our list. We

can also cross off D and E because William James and Carl Lange are the ones

who you know came up with the James-Lange theory of emotion just wasn't

a very clever name. Alright leaving us with C Schacter-Singer theory this

is because she actor singer is a cognitive theory of emotion meaning a [Two guys walking through a park]

person must think about their physiological state before emotion can

be recognized the question tells us that Joe comes to the realization of fear

after he crosses the street and thinks about his heart beating fast, so the

correct answer is C although in our opinion we probably could've avoided the [Joe wearing headphones crossing the street]

problem altogether if Joe had just learned to look both ways before crossing.