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?
A) Plutchik's theory
B) the James-Lange theory
C) the Cannon-Bard theory
D) Schachter and Singer's theory

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Lashley was criticizing the Cannon-Bard theory, which suggests that emotional experiences involve the simultaneous activation of both the thalamus (for the emotional experience) and the autonomic nervous system (for the bodily response), without one causing the other.

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