The Schachter and Singer Theory of Emotion and the James-Lange

question 183

Multiple Choice

The Schachter and Singer theory of emotion and the James-Lange theory of emotion disagree in their answers to the following question:

• A) Can people identify their emotional state by noticing what their autonomic nervous system is doing?
• B) Which parts of the central nervous system are most important for the experience of emotions?
• C) Does the removal of the stimulus for one emotion lead to the start of an opposite emotion?
• D) Are the facial expressions of emotional states learned or built-in?

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