An emotional stimulus, such as a large snarling dog, is appraised as a threat
Your appraisal gives rise to autonomic nervous system (ANS) arousal and cognitive labeling, adaptive behavior (running), facial expressions of fear and postural tenseness, and emotional feelings. Arousal, attribution, expressions, and behavior add to these emotional feelings. Then, the emotional feelings influence appraisal, which further affects arousal, behavior, expressions, and feelings. This is a description of which theory?
a. activation-synthesis hypothesis
b. Yerkes-Dodson law
c. contemporary model of emotion
d. frustration-aggression hypothesis
ANSWER: c
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