GATE 2021 XH5 – Question 30

Motivation, Emotion and Stress and Coping · Emotions: Nature and theories of emotions · 1 mark · Multiple choice

Which emotion theory proposes that an environmental situation triggers the felt emotion and bodily reaction simultaneously, with the two responses independent of one another?

Cannon–Bard theory
Lazarus’s cognitive appraisal theory
Schachter–Singer theory
James–Lange theory

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Correct answer: (A) Cannon–Bard theory

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Cannon–Bard theory proposes parallel central activation of subjective emotion and physiological arousal, A. James–Lange instead places bodily change before experienced emotion; Schachter–Singer combines arousal with cognitive labelling, while Lazarus emphasises appraisal.

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