PSY 240 Emotions Checkpoint

Emotions Checkpoint

PSY 240

Biopsychology Theories on Emotion:

Cannon-Bard- Unlike the James-Lange theory, Cannon and Bard believed that the stimulus of a growling bear brought to like both the symptoms and emotions at the same time. One did not determine the other meaning that signals were passed through the brain stem and both symptoms and emotion are triggered at the same time.

Limbic System- controlled the expression of emotions by connections with the hypothalamus and mediated the perception of emotions by connections with the cortex. Emotion requires both emotional arousal and cognitive activity to understand the reason for the arousal so that the emotion can then be appropriately identified.

Darwin- believed that body movement and facial...