Question

While hiking in the mountains, you see a mountain lion. If you were to react as the Cannon–Bard theory of emotions proposes, which sequence of events would characterize your response? Group of answer choices You would experience physiological changes and a feeling of fear simultaneously. You would feel fear followed by physiological changes. You would experience physiological changes followed by fear. You would experience physiological changes and context appraisal followed by fear

Answer 1

You would experience physiological changes and a feeling of fear simultaneously.

Step-by-step explanation:

Cannon–Bard theory of emotions can as well be regarded as Thalamic theory of emotion, whenever the body experience a stimuli, a message will be sent to the brain by the Thalamus then there will be emotions as a result of this a physiological reaction such as trembling, sweating and others would follows. The theory stressed that physical reaction doesn't depends on emotional reaction.

In the case of hiking in the mountains, and one see a mountain lion. If one were to react as the Cannon–Bard theory of emotions proposes, the sequence of events that would characterize One's response is one would experience physiological changes and a feeling of fear, because a message is send to the brain by the Thalamus, then emotion set in and physiological reaction, which explains Cannon–Bard theory.