Answer:
a. after; at the same time as
Explanation:
According to the James-Lange theory, we experience emotion after we notice our physiological arousal. According to the Cannon-Bard theory, we experience emotion at the same time as we become physiologically aroused. In James-Lange theory, a stimulus is the cause of the arousal of our body's physiological response. So according to this theory, physiological arousal is first and then we feel the emotion. According to Cannon-Bard's theory, also known as the thalamic theory of emotion, both the emotion and the physiological arousal happen simultaneously.