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cognition/emotion debate
- Lazarus (1982)
- Supported cognitive appraisal
theory that emotions result
from cognitive processes, claims
that cog. appraisal essential to
experience emotion
- Showed participants anxiety provoking films -
one set with sound track one without
- Found that participants who
heard the sound track had lower
physiological measurements
- Suggests that cognitive appraisal
can alter emotional repsonse
- Doesn't prove cognition
precedes emotion only
that it can influence it
- Doesn't prove cognition
precedes emotion only
that it can influence it
- Suggests that cognitive appraisal
can alter emotional repsonse
- Ethical
considerations
- Found that participants who
heard the sound track had lower
physiological measurements
- Supported cognitive appraisal
theory that emotions result
from cognitive processes, claims
that cog. appraisal essential to
experience emotion
- Zajonc (1980)
- Disagreed with Cognitive appraisal theory that
emotions result from cognitive processes
- Similar to James -Lange -
we don't need to think to
feel emotion
- Similar to James -Lange -
we don't need to think to
feel emotion
- emotions do not need
cognitive process
- emotion precedes cognition:
we think before we feel
- cognitive appraisal is separate
to other aspects of emotion
- "Mere exposure effect"(people
prefer items that they have been
exposed to over novel ones.
- He claimed subliminal items
were not processed
cognitively (Disproved) and
assumed that preference was
therefore linked to emotion
- He claimed subliminal items
were not processed
cognitively (Disproved) and
assumed that preference was
therefore linked to emotion
- Disagreed with Cognitive appraisal theory that
emotions result from cognitive processes
- Neither Zajonc or Lazarus's
arguments are conclusive
- Both agree that a minimal
amount of cog process is
required for emotion
- Both agree that a minimal
amount of cog process is
required for emotion
- Le Doux (1989) suggests that both may be correct
- Using lesioned animals he showed that some brain structures were
necessary to specific emotions (amygdala and thalamus - fear)
- Lower route (associated with older evolutionary structures)
takes sensory info to the thalamus and then the amydala. Fast
and direct
- Higher route (associated with newer evolutionary structures) relays info
through a more complex route thalamus to sensory cortex and then the
amygdala
- The low route supports Zajonc's theory while the high route supports Lazarus's. This indicates that both theories may be correct
- Lower route (associated with older evolutionary structures)
takes sensory info to the thalamus and then the amydala. Fast
and direct
- Using lesioned animals he showed that some brain structures were
necessary to specific emotions (amygdala and thalamus - fear)
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