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Cognitive and biological factors both play prominant roles in the basis of emotion. Emotion consists of three main components: 1)Pysiological changes, such as arousal of the autonomic nervous system and the endocrine system that are not concious. 2) A persons own subjective feeling of an emotion. 3) Associated behavior, such as smiling or running away. Cognitive Appraisal is simply an interpretation of a pysiological response to external stimuli. A cognitive aspect of emotion for example would be interpretting ones feelings of pain and processing the proper reaction or response.

There are two main biological pathways of emotion in the brain. The first is the short route(low road) that goes from the thalamus to the amygdala(which plays a critical role in emotional memories). The second is the long route(high road) that passess from the neocortex and the hippocampus before it results as an emotion. The amydala is the messenger which will influence the response to the stimulus.