The _____ states that an emotion-provoking stimulus is transmitted simultaneously to the cerebral cortex, providing the conscious mental experience of the emotion, and to the sympathetic nervous system, causing the physiological arousal.

a) Cannon-Bard theory
b) Schachter-Singer theory
c) Smith-Scott theory
d) James-Lange theory


Answer: a

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