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here's your shmoop du jour brought to

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you by cannon bard theory which is not the theory as it shakers best plays all [Man in a cannon]

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involve cannon although well maybe they should because the poison tips orgs are

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getting a little old all right where did cannon bar disagree with James lang and

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here at potential answers where they disagree what where to be in what are

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all these hyphenated names and what do they have to do with each other both James

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lang and canon bard our theories of emotion the james-lange theory was [James and Lange appear]

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actually arrived at independently by both James and laying in the late 1800s

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but both say the same things basically that emotion is caused by our bodily

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reaction to a stimulus not our initial physiological reaction to that stimulus

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so say you see something scary like you know your verizon bill okay something [Man holding a bill]

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legit scary like a real-life Walking Dead two situations of zombie the

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james-lange theory says that what you saw doesn't cause you to be afraid

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instead it's the body's response increased heart rate breathing etc that

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causes you to then be scared because the body senses it must fight or flee this [Man standing in a field and heart beats fast]

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was a very prominent theory for about 40 years

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then cannon bard Theory challenged it arguing that we experience physiological

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arousal and emotion at the same time and that bodily responses can't cause in

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motion because so many emotions have the same kind of body responses and we're [Girl thinking of emotions]

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sure all this has something to do with why we have to dance whenever uptown [Woman dancing in grocery store]

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funk starts playing so which answer best reflects the disagreement between the

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two theories well start with B and C because well they seem to get at the

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heart of what the series deal with these has biological responses have a role in

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emotion and this pretty much sums up the james-lange theory and even though the

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cannon bar theory disputes what causes what it wouldn't go so far as to say

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that biological response has no relationship with emotion which [Man smiling in a cemetery]

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coincidentally is answer C two birds one stone

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next let's look at answer heat suffice it to say there aren't a lot of

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competing theories of emotion dealing with the body's response to adrenaline [Women fighting in boxing ring]

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and that one's pretty clear-cut that leaves a and D well answer a dozen verse

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the james-lange theory so one might think this could be the correct answer

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but remember that cannon bard argues that emotional and biological responses

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happens simultaneously so no okay well now we

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have deep one of the main points cannon bard use to challenge the james-lange

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theory was that people have a wide range of emotions with essentially the same [Emoticon selection appears]

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physiological responses particularly those associated with a raised heartbeat

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and rapid breathing which happens with fear anger and sexual arousal and [Dog rapidly breathing]

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intense mariokart battles let's put it another way there's a thin line between

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love and hate and fear and exercise and really strong espresso poison tip swords [Girl on the beach with an espresso]

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are getting a little old

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