Which of these was later found to be one of the problems with James' theory of
emotion?
(a) A generalized arousal response is the same for many different stimuli, so
feedback from the physiological response could not allow a person to
distinguish among different emotional feelings.
(b) His theory stated that the emotion is experienced prior to the physiological
response to the stimulus, but experiments proved that the physiological
response comes first.
(c) The physiological response to an emotion-producing stimulus typically
takes one or two seconds to appear, but the emotional feeling (for
example, fear) occurs almost instantaneously.
(d) Both A and B
(e) Both A and C
E
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a. True b. False
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