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AP Psychology 1.3 Motivation and Emotion. Which of the following theories explain Joe's behavior?
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Here's your shmoop du jour brought to you by traffic laws or more [Man stood in the middle of traffic]
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like traffic suggestion through all right Joe's walking across the street and his
- 00:12
heart starts to race as a car comes zooming toward him when he reaches the
- 00:15
other side of the street he realizes that he was fearful that the car was going to
- 00:18
hit him which of the following theories explained Joe's behavior and here's
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potential answers all right [mumbling] alright well there are several [a spider web]
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different theories of our body's physical responses to external events
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are linked to emotions such as fear personally we find that walking into a [two guys walk into a spider web and scream]
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spider web triggers a pretty immediate physical and emotional response but er,
- 00:39
different story there. Is Joe's behavior explained by A cannon-bard theory, well
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canon-bard theory states that we feel emotions like fear and experience [boy running and jumping into a pool]
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psychological reactions like rapid heartbeat, simultaneously the question
- 00:53
tells us that Joe's heart began beating faster while he was in the street but [Joe crossing the road as a car zooms past]
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the realization of fear came after he had crossed so not simultaneously cross
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off A.. Is his behavior explained by B james-lange theory well james-lange
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theory states that people feel emotion because they perceive their body's [Boy crying and thinking he must be sad]
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physiological responses to an event well this one is close but it didn't take into account
- 01:16
that Joe didn't recognize the fact that he was feeling fear until after he had [Joe working in a lab]
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crossed the street and thought about it so we can cross off B from our list. We
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can also cross off D and E because William James and Carl Lange are the ones
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who you know came up with the James-Lange theory of emotion just wasn't
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a very clever name. Alright leaving us with C Schacter-Singer theory this
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is because she actor singer is a cognitive theory of emotion meaning a [Two guys walking through a park]
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person must think about their physiological state before emotion can
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be recognized the question tells us that Joe comes to the realization of fear
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after he crosses the street and thinks about his heart beating fast, so the
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correct answer is C although in our opinion we probably could've avoided the [Joe wearing headphones crossing the street]
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problem altogether if Joe had just learned to look both ways before crossing.
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