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According to Walter Cannon:

Correct answer: A. Animals without a sympathetic nervous system can still experience emotion

  • A. Animals without a sympathetic nervous system can still experience emotion
  • B. Animals without an amygdala cannot experience emotion
  • C. Emotions can never be 'experienced' until the body has time to react
  • D. The parasympathetic nervous system is responsible for the feeling of emotion

Explanation

Cannon argued that emotional experience does not depend entirely on feedback from the sympathetic nervous system, so animals could still experience emotion despite its absence. The other choices incorrectly make emotion dependent on the amygdala, delayed bodily reactions or the parasympathetic system.

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