Question

Lashley (1938) stated that the thalamus would have to be pretty sophisticated to make sense of all the possible emotions and relay them to the proper areas of the cortex-and body. which theory of emotion was lashley criticizing?

Answer 1

Physiologist Walter Cannon (1927) and Philip Bard (1934) theorized that the emotion and physiological arousal occur more or less at the same time. Cannon who was an expert in sympathetic arousal mechanisms, did not feel that the physical changes caused by different emotions were distinct enough to allow them to be perceived as different emotions. Bard expanded this theory by giving the idea that the sensory information that comes into brain is sent simultaneously (by the thalamus) to both the cortex (which generates emotion) and the organs of the sympathetic nervous system (which generates physiological changes in the body). The fear and the bodily reactions are, therefore, experienced at the same time and not one after the other. Cannon believed that information from the emotional stimulus goes first to the brain relay center, called the thalamus. From there the information is simultaneously relayed both to the cerebral cortex, where it produces the emotional experience, and to the hypothalamus and autonomic nervous system,  where it produces the physiological arousal that prepares one to fight , run away, or react in some other way. To Cannon-Bard, the conscious emotional experience and physiological arousal are two simultaneous and largely independent events.

Answer 2

Answer:canon- bard theory of emotion

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