【单选题】{{B}}Passage Four{{/B}}
Individuals communicate most of their emotions by means of words, a variety of sounds, facial expressions, and gestures. For example, anger causes many people to frown, make a fist, and yell. People learn ways of showing some of their emotions from members of their society, though heredity (遗传)may determine some emotional behavior. Research has shown that different isolated peoples show emotions by means of similar facial expressions.
CharlesDarwin, famous for the theory of natural selection, also studied emotion.Darwin said in 1872 that emotional behavior originally served both as an aid to survival and as a method of communicating intentions.According to the James-Lange theory of emotions developed in the 1880s, people feel emotions only if aware of their own internal physical reactions to events, such as increased heart rate or blood pressure.But this theory was not up-held: by research on cats that had their nervous system damageD、The cats could not feel their body’s internal changes, but they showed normal emotional behavior. JohnB、Watson, anAmerican psychologist who helped found the school of psychology called behaviorism, observed that babies stimulated by certain events showed three basic emotions--fear, anger, and love. Watson’s view has been challenged frequently since he proposed it in 1919.
The most widely accepted view is that emotions occur as a complex sequence of events. The sequence begins when a person encounters an important event or thought. The person’s interpretation of the encounter determines the feeling that is likely to follow. For example, someone who encounters a bear in the woods would probably interpret the event as dangerous. The sense of danger would cause the individual to feel fear.Each feeling is followed by physical changes and desires to take action, which are responses to the event that started the sequence. Thus, a person who met a bear would probably run away.
SeveralAmerican psychologists independently developed the theory that there are eight basic emotions. These emotions--which can exist at various levels of intensity--are anger, fear, joy, sadness, acceptance, disgust,
surprise, and interest or curiosity. They combine to form all other emotions, just as certain basic colors produce all others.
B．exaggerated the function of stimulating events
C．faced a challenge from counter evidence
D．offered a narrow interpretation of emotions
网考网参考答案：C
网考网解析：
[解析] 细节考查题。从题目中的The James-Lange theory我们可以把本题的出处定位到第三段。并且题目中的大写词组很容易定位。我们可以知道，他的理论并没有得到在猫身上做的实验的证明。所以选C。 document.getElementById("warp").style.display="none"; document.getElementById("content").style.display="block"; 查看试题解析出处>>
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