Emotions have been part of our physiological function; in ways we have experienced feelings and its stimuli. For example, humans have six types of universal emotions, which identify our expressions. Those being happy, sad, angry, disgust, fear and surprise. According to Psychology and Life by Gerrig our bodies have an autonomic nervous system where we display emotional reactions through sympathetic and parasympathetic reactions. Although strong emotions allow our bodies to activate unpleasant and pleasant emotions, it leads it to present emotions through expression. Our bodies provide many emotional reactions within the environment, we are situated, and whether walking alone late at night emotions are relevant to the situation. Our physiological response was questioned and attempted to answer, though three major theories of emotion: James-Lange theory, Cannon-Bard theory, and Schacter-Singer theory.
If I was walking alone late at night and I heard footsteps behind me, I would feel petrified. My body would have an autonomic display sympathetic reaction in which my brain would either prepare to fight the person walking behind me or flee the uncomfortable situation. It would either lead to a
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Schachter-Singer explains that the display of emotions is based upon the physiological arousal and the cognitive judgment. Therefore, if I were walking alone late at night I would feel afraid because of the environment that I am located. Walking alone at night and hearing step behind me would immediately cause the first response of cognitive appraisal and autonomic nervous system stimulation in the change in my body in sympathetic division. Hence, the stimulus of walking alone late at night, hearing steps would cause sweaty palms and a conscious distress and fear. This perspective of emotions would help me experience my reaction the given
Consider the second criteria of emotionality. Emotionality is one’s ability to feel and be affected by emotion. While all average individua...
In the video “This Time with Feeling,” Antonio Damasio is a professor in the field of neuroscience at the University of Southern California and an author of books associated with the relationship between the brain and consciousness. In terms of his studies, Antonio Damasio, by contrast with some biologists and other experts, demonstrated that the emotion and feeling play a main role in various kinds of life-regulating processes in the society. Furthermore, the emotion and the feeling will be reflected or transmit to the brain as the stimuli, and then they will create a variety of body states.
Physiologically emotions are closely related to arousal in the nervous system. They are a kind of complex feeling which affects our behavior by changes in the psychological as well as physical surroundings. The explanation of different events is done by the process of cognition; an important feature of emotion.
Today, emotions means, when a person changes from one state to another, as in happy to sad (Petri H. L., & Govern, J. M., 2013). You might be wondering now where exactly did we learn how to express ourselves with the many emotions there are. Well, Darwin would argue that emotions come natural and that they are not learned, with the exception of a few. He would go on and say, that our able to recognize behaviors that are associated with certain emotions is innate as well (Petri H. L., & Govern, J. M., 2013). Have you ever smiled at a baby and they smiled back, that gives you evidence that displaying emotions are not young. It is so easy even a baby can do it. The amygdala has been viewed as the primary structure of the brain where expressions of emotions are
Emotions are part of a management system to co-ordinate each individual's multiple plans and goals under constraints of time and other resources. Emotions are also part of the biological solution to the problem of how to plan and to carry out action aimed at satisfying multiple goals in environments, which are not always predictable. Emotions are based on non-propositional communications that can be called 'emotion signals’. An interesting aspect of research is “Can emotions exist and exert influence at the unconscious level?” Freud's view was that emotions could not be unconscious, that their experience is bound with the conscious experience, and that only predispositions towards certain emotions can exist in the unconscious (contempt, disgust, and shame); supplying it’s own unique kind of motivating information. According to our textbook (Bukato & Daehler 1998) emotions have three components. The physiological component involves body changes. This includes respiration, increased heart rate and sweating. Smiles, grimaces, frowns and laughter are all facial displays that are part of the expressive component. How a person interprets and evaluates their emotional state is the experiential component. Development of Emotions the question to scientists is whether or not emotion and mood is formed through mind processes or biologically innate traits. Scientists are searching the brain for a particular area that stimulates emotion in humans. They have changed their idea that it might be the hippocampus and now feel that part of it may come from the amygdala. Supposedly when something known by our senses comes in interaction with us, an impulse is sent to this amygdala and it sends another impulse to our cortex. ...
When you parked your car in the parking of a bakery at 2 am o'clock . When you will returned back to your car with some goods which you buy from that bakery you will hear some very uncommon voices you will feel Fear.You usually don't hear such voices at day time and these noises don't make you feel fear and may be you even don't hear these sounds at day time . You may ignore them at day time because there are a lot of other more loud voices you hear at day time and you are not don't notice them but at night you get fear.
Fear in general drives human beings to be alert of the dangers surrounding us. A woman’s fear could easily be driven by a man just because he is simply a man. In our society we have painted the picture that as women we should be careful when we walk by ourselves at night and we should always be on alert with a weapon ready in hand. A recent study conducted in Canada proved that women were “three times more likely than men to be afraid when walking alone after dark.” (Women against Violence against Women, 2015). Though on one hand our mass media and culture have had an influence to stereotype men to play the “antagonist” when it comes to women walking home alone at night.
Emotions play a significant part in our daily lives, especially to our overall wellbeing whenever we share these experiences with other people. The ability to express and interpret emotions is an important skill that everyone can improve on that would greatly benefit their interpersonal communication. Our expressions accompany our emotions; they serve as windows that allow other people to know what we are feeling inside. There are several factors that influence how we communicate our feelings.
Emotion is the “feeling” aspect of consciousness that includes physical, behavioral, and subjective (cognitive) elements. Emotion also contains three elements which are physical arousal, a certain behavior that can reveal outer feelings and inner feelings. One key part in the brain, the amygdala which is located within the limbic system on each side of the brain, plays a key role in emotional processing which causes emotions such as fear and pleasure to be involved with the human facial expressions.The common-sense theory of emotion states that an emotion is experienced first, leading to a physical reaction and then to a behavioral reaction.The James-Lange theory states that a stimulus creates a physiological response that then leads to the labeling of the emotion. The Cannon-Bard theory states that the physiological reaction and the emotion both use the thalamus to send sensory information to both the cortex of the brain and the organs of the sympathetic nervous system. The facial feedback hypothesis states that facial expressions provide feedback to the brain about the emotion being expressed on the face, increasing all the emotions. In Schachter and Singer’s cognitive arousal theory, also known as the two-factor theory, states both the physiological arousal and the actual arousal must occur before the emotion itself is experienced, based on cues from the environment. Lastly, in the cognitive-mediational theory
Before reading the article, The Power of Feelings by John M. Dirkx, I had a higher understanding that my emotions could play a major role in my decisions and actions. I have seen my emotions make some major decisions in job preferences, schooling and even major life events. Human beings alone make some of the most valuable decisions in life based on their emotions. Some of the most memorable events come from those with deep passion, care, kindness and love, not only for what they do but for the people that they do it for. On the other hand, some of the worst crimes in history have also been an action of an emotion, whether that has been for love, hatred, anger and even a fit of rage.
(14) Cf. Calhoun, Ch., Solomon, R. C. - What is an Emotion, Oxford University Press, New York 1984.
To conclude, researches propose a number of theories that experience human emotions. The James-Lange theory of emotion and the Cannon-Bard theory of emotion belong to one physiological category of theories. However, chosen theories differ greatly from each other. While the James-Lange theory affirms that different physiological states respond to various experiences of emotion, the Cannon-Bard theory claims that humans react to an inducement and experience that is related to the emotion at that time. Both theories have individuals that criticize them and it is up to the individual to decide which one to
Second, emotions often go together with motives. And third, it is typical for basic emotions to possess motivational properties of their own. For example, happiness motivates a person to achieve better performance. A similarity between emotion and motivation is that they are both linked to energy or intensity instead of information or direction. Yet another similarity is that both rely on the relationship between an individual and it’s environment. Emotions have the biggest control over our motivation in life. Understanding how people feel in situations may inform you of what strongly motivates them to do certain actions. Every person has a different experience even when viewing the same events. Events are an external stimulus that can affect a person’s emotional state. The act of laughing or crying, may be the reaction to stimulus. Stimulus can come from internal factors as well as external factors such as a person thinking something funny or thinking something sad. People who smile are happier however it is not known if the smile is in reaction or if the smile produces feelings of happiness. Understanding emotional theories and their operation within our subconscious, is a useful device for managing our own lives as well as understanding others. Each person is unique, so every emotion to each situation is unique as well. Schachter-Singer theory is troubled with how arousal and emotion affect performance and human motivation. In this theory a person learns that events cause physiological arousal first then emotion. Although motivations biggest influence is emotion, another influence is having a goal. For example, you have a aunt who would like to get fit. Your aunt sets the goal of watching what they eat, and trying to exercise more. The motivation here for your aunt would be the goals that they had previously set. But some people could also argue that the goals are also linked to emotions because the goals were made from some desire , and desire is an emotion.
Emotions are defined as "stereotypic patterns of the body, which are triggered by the central nervous system in response to distinct external environmental situations or to the recollection of memories related to such situations." (2) In other words, this means the emotions are the way the nervous system reacts to different situations one might find themselves in. In order to survive, emotional responses must be present. (2) "Whenever an emotion is triggered, a network of brain regions (traditionally referred to as the limbic system) generates a pattern of stereotypic outputs, which ultimately induce a biological response of the body." (2) These stereotypic outputs are what humans call emotions. They are predictable responses to certain situations, for instance when a person is in a sad situation, they will cry and feel depressed or if a person is in a happy situation, they will laugh and smile. These responses are because "specific circuits of the emotional motor system have evolved to both generate this stereotypic emotional facial response, as well as instantaneously recognize it when it occurs in somebody else." (2) This holds true for people in love, when you see someone in love you can tell because their face tells all.
Have you ever wondered why people have certain reactions? I chose chapter eight on emotions for my reflection paper because emotions are something that everyone has and feels, yet cannot always explain or react to in the way you would expect. Personally, I have never been great at responding to emotions in a way that I would not regret in the future. Thus, naturally being drawn to this chapter as a way to expand my knowledge on how to react to things more positively. I also wanted to learn why I feel a certain way after events that would not affect most people and be reassured about my feelings. Opposite to that, it is nice to see that, while not always productive, others have the same reaction habits. Overall, emotions are a complicated