Major Motivational and Emotional Response Theories :: Pyschology, Informative

MAJOR MOTIVATIONAL AND EMOTIONAL RESPONSE THEORIESDefine the major motivational and emotional answer theories that influence behavior.Emotion is a feeling state involving physiologic arousal, a cognitive appraisal of situation arousing the state, and an outward expression of the state.The James-Lange scheme James claimed that root an event causes physiological arousal and a physical response. Only then does the individual perceive or interpret the physical response as an emotion. In opposite words, saying something stupid causes you to blush, and you interpret your physical response, blushing, as an emotion, embarrassment. He went on to suggest that we feel sorry because we cry, angry because we strike, afraid because we trembleThe Cannon-Bard Theory Emotion-provoking stimuli are received by the senses and are then relayed simultaneously to the cerebral cortex, which provides the conscious mental experience of the emotion, and to the sympathetic nervous system, which produces th e physiological state of arousal. In other words, your feeling of emotion (fear, for example) occurs at about the same time that you experience physiological arousal(a pounding heart). One does not cause the other.The Schachter-Singer Theory According to his theory, two things must happen in order for a person to feel an emotion. 1. The person must first experience physiological arousal. 2. Then there must be a cognitive interpretation or explanation of the logical arousal so that the person can estimate it as a specific emotion. He concluded that a true emotion can occur only if a person is physically unrestrained and can find some reason for it.The Lazarus Theory a cognitive appraisal is the first step in an