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EMOTIONS - Coggle Diagram

- - - - 1) External Stimulus
        
        Emotional reaction is dependant to
        how you interpret physical reactions
      - 2) Physiological reaction
  - - - Emotional responses occur too quickly for them to be products of physical states.
      - Physical and physiological experience of emotion happen at the same time.
      - Physiological response does not tell us much. Ex, your heartbeat racing could be excitement and not fear.
  - - - Emotions evolve, they are adaptive
        
        Allow animals and humans to survive and reproduce
      - Emotions motivate people to respond
        quickly to a stimuli in the environment
      - Understanding emotions of other people and animals
        
        Interpret correctly emotions of others = respond correctly and avoid danger.
  - - - Physiological arousal
      - Congitive interpretation and label emotion (connected to the reason of the arousal)
    - - When the reason of arousal is not clear, you will search the answer in the environment in order to determine what is going on.
- - - - Pleasant emotional state
      - contentment, joy, gratification, satisfaction, and well-being
      - Example of how it is expressed:
        
        Facial expressions: smiling
        
        Body language: relaxed stance
        
        Tone of voice: upbeat, pleasant way of speaking
    - - Transient emotional state
      - Feelings of disappointment, grief, hopelessness, disinterest, and dampened mood
      - Examples of how it is expressed
        
        Crying, quietness, dampened mood
      - Prolonged and severe levels of sadness can turn into depression
    - - Example of how it is expressed:
        
        Physical reactions: vomiting or retching
        
        Facial expressions: wrinkling nose and curling upper lip
        
        Body language: turning away from the object of disgust
      - Sense of revulsion
    - - Powerful emotion with important role in survival
      - Fight or flight response
        
        Tense muscles, heart rate and respiration increase, mind becomes alert, prepared to either run from the danger or stand and fight.
      - Example of expression:
        
        Facial expressions: widening the eyes and pulling back the chin
        
        Body language: attempts to hide or run away from threat
        
        Physiological reactions: rapid breathing and heartbeat
      - Response to IMMEDIATE threat
    - - Feelings of hostility, agitation, frustration, etc
      - Examples of how it is expressed:
        
        Facial expressions: frowning/ glaring
        
        Body language: turning away
        
        Tone of voice: speaking gruffly or yelling
        
        Physiological responses: sweating or turning red
        
        Aggressive behaviors: hitting, kicking, or throwing objects
      - Powerful emotion
      - Thought as a negative emotion but it can be a good thing
        
        It can be constructive
        
        It can motivate you to take action and find solutions
      - It can have physical and mental consequences
    - - Physiological startle response following something unexpected
      - It can be positive, negative, or neutral
      - Often characterized by:
        
        Facial expressions: raising brows, widening eyes, opening mouth
        
        Physical responses: jumping back
        
        Verbal reactions: yelling, screaming, or gasping
      - Can trigger the fight or flight response
- - - - Emotions can be seen as rewards or punishments of a specific motivated behaviour
- - - - SUBJECTIVE EXPERIENCE
        
        Own experience of emotions is multi-dimensional, subjective.
        
        Emotions are different fpr each one, depending on the person and the situation
      - PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONE
        
        Responses experienced during an emotion regulated by the autonomic nervous system.
        
        Involuntary body responses, you cannot help it, it just happens.
      - BEHAVIORAL OR EXPRESSIVE RESPONSE
        
        The actual expression of emotion
        
        Overall body language
        
        Emotional intelligence
        
        Understand social, political and cultural forces that have shaped what we come to believe about our emotions
        
        The act upon emotions