One Reason Why the Cannon-Bard Theory Was Proposed as an Alternative

question 10

Multiple Choice

One reason why the Cannon-Bard theory was proposed as an alternative to the James-Lange theory was that there:

• A)was a need to account for bodily activity.
• B)was no need to account for bodily activity.
• C)were not enough unique patterns of bodily activity to account for all emotions.
• D)were not enough emotions to account for all the unique patterns of bodily activity.

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