ABSTRACT
Some years ago, when I was thinking about cognitive appraisal as a central process in emotion, I realized that the cognitive revolution in psychology did not create new constructs with which to understand the human mind but only changed the definition and arrangement of old constructs. The basic theoretical entities of psychology have always consisted of motivation, emotion, and cognition, each of which describes different functions of mind. In an interesting discussion of the origins of faculty psychology, Hilgard (1980) has referred to these as the “trilogy of the mind.” To these constructs we must add two other sets of variables, namely, actions and the environmental stimulus array, making a total of five concepts to juggle in our theories of emotion and behavior.
