Klaus Scherer Has Proposed That Emotions Are Elicited by Appraisals

question 9

Multiple Choice

Klaus Scherer has proposed that emotions are elicited by appraisals along dimensions such as novelty, unexpectedness, pleasantness, certainty, and control. This hypothesis about the causes of emotion is mostly closely aligned with which major theory of emotion?

• A) Basic/discrete emotions theory
• B) The evaluative space model
• C) Core affect theory
• D) The component process model

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