In 1884 and in 1885, theorists William James and Carl Lange might have separately proposed their respective theories on the correlation of stress and emotion, but they had a unified idea on this relationship - emotions do not immediately succeed the perception of the stressor or the stressful event; they become present after the body’s response to the stress. For instance, when you see a growling dog, your heart starts to race, your breath begins to go faster, and then your eyes become wide open. According to James and Lange, the feeling of fear or any other emotion only begins after you experience these bodily changes. This means that the emotional behavior is not possible to occur unless it is connected to one’s brain. This theory is applicable to this study to explain how noise may affect human activities including students. Cannon-Bard: The Emergency Theory This theory is quite the opposite of what James and Lange proposed. According to theorist Walter Cannon, emotion in response to stress can actually occur even when the bodily changes are not present. Cannon said that the visceral or internal physiologic response of one’s body is more slowly recognized by the brain as compared with its function to release emotional response. He attempted to prove his theory by means of creating the so-called “decorticated cats”, wherein the neural connections of the body are separated from the cortex in the brain of the cats. When faced with a stressful response, the decorticated cats showed emotional behavior which meant feelings of aggression and rage. These emotions were then manifested by bodily changes such as baring of teeth, growling and erect hair. To further enhance Cannon’s theory, theorist Philip Bard expanded the ideals of Cannon by arguing that a lower brain stem structure called the thalamus is important in the production of emotional responses. …show more content…
According to Bard, the emotional response is released first, and then sent as signals by the thalamus to the brain cortex for the interpretation alongside with the sending of signals to the sympathetic nervous system or SNS to begin the physiologic response to stress. Therefore, this theory argues that emotional response to stress is not a product of the physiologic response; rather, they occur simultaneously. From the point of view of psychological stress theory, the generation of noise-induced annoyance is essentially a dynamic process. Acoustical and non-acoustical factors are appraised and re-appraised by the individual on the basis of his needs and the resources available to satisfy them. Neither needs nor resources are fixed: they change as they (must) keep in touch with a permanently changing social environment. Therefore, in principal, any measure of noise-induced annoyance reveals a temporary state. Dreossi & Momensohn-Santos (2003) performed a research …show more content…
The potential weakness of the theory is that students may confuse and fail to construct any idea in case of disturbances such as noise. This theory is applicable to this study to explain how noise may affect human activities including students. Therefore in education area teacher and school leaders need to shift and reshape their perspective.
1.7. Conceptual Framework
In conceptual framework we deal with to variable dependent and independent variables, independent variables are all sources of noise which alters when the dependent variable is manipulated to bring about new results.
The figure below shows the relationship between the teacher and students with teaching and learning