There are several functioned emotions that will be analyzed in this paper. Psychological emotional arousal and cognitive activity can be very important. At least two historical theories of emotion and arousal as they relate to human motivation such as; American psychologist Stanley Schatcher as well Jerome Singer’s theory will be examined. There will be at least two research methods used for uncovering basic emotions analyze such as; Johnson-Laird and Oatley. Facial feedback hypothesis, particularly the event-appraisal-emotion sequence will be discussed as well. Other information and knowledge will be shared and discussed too. There are different expressions in an individual that can sometimes or most of the time determines their emotion; looking in a spouse eyes for example and seeing there smile when telling a spouse how much love they have for their loved one. Emotions keep us motivated and move towards goals however some emotions can sometimes be sever or harmful to ones mentality. Emotions too has rewards it also stimulates and appraises also known as the event-appraisal-emotion sequence discussed further in this informational paper.
Emotion and arousal, one seeks to explain behavior either maintained or increased when goals are obtained, and the other as a state of consciousness that produces joy, hate, love, sorrow. Stanley Schatcher along with Jerome Singer both American psychologist; suggested that when experiencing an emotion there should be both emotional arousal and cognitive activity (perception, memory, reasoning) in order to fully understand why arousal occurs; in doing this emotion can correctly be determined. During their research Schatcher and Singer ended with the idea that individuals are usually aware of why they are aroused but if it is not clear, they will look for the answers of why the emotions took place through environmental factors. Schatcher-Singer also theorizes physiological arousal comes before emotion even takes
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