Practice question · Put in order
Order the events of an emotional response as the James-Lange theory describes them.
- Your brain interprets that bodily state.
- Your body reacts: heart pounds, muscles tremble.
- You see a bear.
- The subjective feeling of fear arises.
Hints
- In James-Lange, the body reacts BEFORE the feeling is experienced.
- The felt emotion is the LAST step - an interpretation of the bodily arousal.
Show the answer
- You see a bear.
- Your body reacts: heart pounds, muscles tremble.
- Your brain interprets that bodily state.
- The subjective feeling of fear arises.
Why
James-Lange orders it: stimulus, bodily arousal, interpretation of that arousal, then the felt emotion. The theory's signature is that the feeling FOLLOWS the physiological response rather than preceding it.
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