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Emotions - Coggle Diagram

- - - - We can realize that emotions also cause strong physiological reactions. (we feel emotions and experience physiological reactions simultaneously.)
        The autonomic nervous system controls involuntary body responses. The sympathetic nervous system is charged with controlling the body's fight-or-flight reactions. When facing a threat, these responses automatically prepare your body to flee from danger or face the threat head-on.
    - - This are the actual expression of emotion.
        Our ability to accurately understand these expressions is tied to what psychologists call emotional intelligence
    - - Researchers believe that experiencing emotion can be highly subjective. We also don't always experience pure forms of each emotion. Mixed emotions over different events or situations in our lives are common.
  - - - A mood, on the other hand, is usually much milder than an emotion, but longer-lasting.8 In many cases, it can be difficult to identify the specific cause of a mood.
- - - - Has an important role in survival. When you face some sort of danger and experience fear, you go through what is known as the fight or flight response.
        
        Your muscles become tense, your heart rate and respiration increase, and your mind becomes more alert
    - - This sense of revulsion can originate from a number of things, including an unpleasant taste, sight, or smell.
        
        Body language: turning away from the object of disgust
        
        Physical reactions: such as vomiting or retching
        
        Facial expressions: such as wrinkling the nose and curling the upper lip
    - - s a transient emotional state characterized by feelings of disappointment, grief, hopelessness, disinterest, and dampened mood.
        
        Crying
        
        Dampened mood
        
        Lethargy
        
        Quietness
        
        Withdrawal from others
    - - feelings of hostility, agitation, frustration, and antagonism towards others.
        
        Facial expressions: such as frowning or glaring
        
        Body language: such as taking a strong stance or turning away
        
        Tone of voice: such as speaking gruffly or yelling
        
        Physiological responses: such as sweating or turning red
        
        Aggressive behaviors: such as hitting, kicking, or throwing objects
    - - Tends to be the one that people strive for the most. Happiness is often defined as a pleasant emotional state.
        
        Facial expressions: such as smiling
        
        Body language: such as a relaxed stance
        
        Tone of voice: an upbeat, pleasant way of speaking
    - - Surprise is usually quite brief and is characterized by a physiological startle response following something unexpected.
        
        Facial expressions: such as raising the brows, widening the eyes, and opening the mouth
        
        Physical responses: such as jumping back
        
        Verbal reactions: such as yelling, screaming, or gasping
  - - - According to this theory, the more basic emotions act something like building blocks. More complex, sometimes mixed emotions, are blendings of these more basic ones.
- - - - It was naturalist Charles Darwin who proposed that emotions evolved because they were adaptive and allowed humans and animals to survive and reproduce.
        According to the evolutionary theory of emotion, our emotions exist because they serve an adaptive role.
    - - James-Lange theory of emotion suggests that emotions occur as a result of physiological reactions to events.
        This theory suggests that seeing an external stimulus leads to a physiological reaction. Your emotional reaction is dependent upon how you interpret those physical reactions.
    - - People can experience physiological reactions linked to emotions without actually feeling those emotions. Emotional responses occur much too quickly to be simply products of physical states.
    - - This theory suggests that the physiological arousal occurs first, and then the individual must identify the reason for this arousal to experience and label it as an emotion. A stimulus leads to a physiological response that is then cognitively interpreted and labeled, resulting in an emotion.
    - - According to this theory, the sequence of events first involves a stimulus, followed by thought, which then leads to the simultaneous experience of a physiological response and the emotion. Thinking must occur first before experiencing emotion.
    - - emotions are directly tied to changes in facial muscles.