Emotions
WHAT ARE EMOTIONS?
• Emotions are feelings that generally have
both physiological and cognitive elements and
that influence behavior.
INTRODUCTION OF EMOTION
• The word emotion drives from Latin word
”emover” means tremble, to shake
• Emotion refers to the intensity of feelings
• Feeling are simple experience of effective types,
pleasant or unpleasant
• We often experience emotion of anger, fear,
happiness,surprice etc
• Different people display these emotion in a
different way
DEFINITION OF EMOTION
• W.McDougall describes emotion as the effective
aspect of instinct.
• According to Woodworth Emotion refers to the state
of arousal.
• Hoffding characterized Emotion as the boiling of
feeling.
• William James defines Emotion as the physiological
change brought about by perception
• Lefton said Emotion is a subjective feeling or
response generally accompanied by a physiological
change usually associated with behavior.
TYPES OF EMOTION
COMPONENTS/ELEMENT OF
EMOTIONS
COMPONENTS/ELEMENT OF
• EMOTIONS
CONGNITIVE CHANGE
• The cognitive component is how we
interpret certain situation or stimulation
• An appraisal of the situation to determine
which emotion we are experiencing and how
intensely
• Perception ,thinking, and memory are very
much involved in emotional process
• How you get to name of emotion you are
having what one person calls fear another
may call excitement
PHYSIOLOGICAL CHANGE
• When the person experience an emotion, there is an
arousal created by the sympathetic nervous system
• The heart rate increases breathing become more
rapid, muscle strain increase, mouth may become
dry etc
• Emotion are typically associated with mild to
extreme change in physiological process according
within our bodies
• In psychology emotion is considered a response to
stimuli that involves characteristic physiological
changes such as increase in pulse rates, rise in
body temperature, change in breathing etc
BEHAVIORAL CHANGE
• The behavioral component consists of
muscular movement that are appropriate to
the situation
• Outward expression of the emotion ,
including facial expression and behavior
• Emotion are expressed in body language
non verbal behavior, facial expression are
widely used
CHARACTERISTICS OF
EMOTION
• emotion depends on stimuli
• Emotion differences vary from one individual
to another and from one situation to another
• Emotion experiences are associated with
some instincts or biological drives
• Emotion rise abruptly and die slowly
• Emotion are the products of perception
• Emotion are flexible
• external situation produce emotion
• Emotions have a wide range
• Emotion are associated with motivation
• Emotion are accompanied by both
physiological and cognitive changes
• Emotions influence behavior
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