Unit 3 - Motivation, Emotion and Learning
Date Submitted: 09/10/2006 00:10:44
Category: / Social Sciences / Psychology
Length: 1 pages (318 words)
Category: / Social Sciences / Psychology
Length: 1 pages (318 words)
An emotion is characterized by feelings of pleasantness or unpleasantness (cognitive) accompanied by physiological modifications (physiological), that lead to behavioral reactions (expressive). Emotions have three components: Cognitive, Physiological and Expressive components. Cognitive component are the conscious experience of emotions and the way they are labeled. Six primary emotions are: Anger, Disgust, Fear, Happiness, Sadness and Surprise.
Other emotions are: Contempt, Guilt, Interest, and Shame. According the Plutchik, there are eight other emotion with polar opposites, …
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The physiological components of emotions that are known to accompany Distress, I experienced. I have had a few really bad anxiety attacks associated with muscle tension and headaches, gastro-intestinal upset, changes in heart rate and blood circulation, and rapid, shallow breathing.
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