Question

Write short notes:

Cannon-Bard Theory of emotions

Answer 1

1. Walter Cannon and Philip Bard disagreed with James- Lange saying that only physiological arousal will not lead to experiencing a particular emotion because we may experience the same physiological arousal but emotions can be different.
2. Eg: we don’t cry only when we are sad but we also cry when we are pleasantly surprised or extremely happy.
3. According to them, we experience physiological arousal simultaneously yet separately.
4. When we experience an emotion, our sympathetic nervous system interprets the stimulus which leads to physiological arousal like crying or heart palpitation, etc.
5. The same information is also interpreted in the brain by which we become aware of the emotion.