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Definition:
**Emotion** - An identifiable feeling state involving physoilogical arousal, a cognitive appraisal of the situation or stimulus causing that internal body state, and an outward behavior expressing the state.

**James-Lange Theory** - The theory that emotional feelings result when an individual becomes aware of a physiological response to an emotion-provoking stimulus.

**Cannon-Bard Theory** - The theory that an emotion-provoking stimulus is transmitted simultaneously to the cerebral cortex, providing the conscious mental experience of the emotion, and to the sympathetic nervous system, causing the physiological arousal.

**Schachter-Singer Theory** - A two-factor theory stating that for an emotion to occur, there must be (1) physiological arousal and (2) a cognitive interpretation or explanation of the arousal, allowing it to be labeled as a specific emotion.

**Lazarus Theory** - The theory that a cognitive appraisal is the first step in an emotional repsonse and all other aspects of an emotion, including physiological arousal, depend on it.

Chapter 9, Pages 308-309

Related pages:
Theories of Emotions, Emotion and the Brain,The Expression of Emotion,and Gender Diffrerences in Emotion, most common an outward behavior expressing the state.

Examples:
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Analogies:
Holding onto anger is like grabbing a hot coal with the intent to throw it at someone else — you are the first one who gets burned.

Mnemonics:
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