Mnemonics to Help You Remember
James-Lange Theory
A comes before E
- just like Arousal comes before your Emotion.
J for Jog away from danger and L for
Later feel your fear.
Cannon-Bard Theory
Say the two Ns in Cannon simultaneously just
like you experience arousal and emotion
Cannon=Causes, Bard=Both;
so it would be the "Causes Both Theory" because the theory says that
the physiological response and experience of emotion happen at the
same time, or "the Cause stimulates Both at the same time.
Think Bard = Bird: You kill 2 birds with 1 stone
Theory says 2 things happen at once
If you get hit by a Cannon then you feel arousal,
pain and scared all at once!
Schachter-Singer
Two Factor Theory
Think “Exactor” meaning you double
check your emotion by labeling the arousal
just to be sure.
2-Factor = The emotion comes twice
Once when you actually experience the arousal and then again
when you label the emotion of that arousal.
Lazarus Cognitive Mediational
Theory
•You meditate on the situation before feeling
emotion
•Lazy Emotion –Your emotions lazily wait for
you to label the situation.
•Jesus raises Lazarus from the dead –
–All those who witness this situation have to label it
either a miracle and hence be overjoyed or label it a
trick and be angry.
Zajonc & LeDoux Theory
•Zap! –Some emotions happen in an instant without
thought.
•Z is lowest letter in the alphabet and fear takes the
Low Road of neural circuits.
•LeDoux –Some emotions are like a Reflex
