You awaken from your daydream to hear your instructor say that an emotion-arousing stimulus has two simultaneous effects, causing bodily arousal via the sympathetic nervous system and a subjective experience via the cortex. No doubt the instructor is talking about the ________ theory of emotion.

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The Cannon-Bard theory of emotion proposes that an emotion-arousing stimulus simultaneously triggers both physiological responses and the subjective experience of emotion, unlike the James-Lange theory, which suggests that physiological arousal precedes the emotional experience.  This theory states that an emotional stimulus produces both physiological arousal and experience of emotion concurrently; one does not cause the other. If you are angry, your heartbeat increases at the same time that you have an emotion of being "ticked off," but neither the body nor the mind dictates the way the other responds.

You Awaken from Your Daydream to Hear Your Instructor Say