This Slide is totally about emotional psychology.

1. EMOTION
 Components Of
Emotion
 Changes In Emotional
Reaction
 Theories Of Emotion
 Emotional Adjustment
 Emotion In Health And
Illness

2. Imagine Life With Out
 Love
 Joy
 Fear
 Sadness
 Surprise
 Anger

3. Introduction
 The word ‘emotion’ is derived from the
Latin word, ‘emovere’ which means ‘to
excite’. In common use emotion is
referred to a subjective feeling.
 Feelings are simple experience of
effective type, pleasant or unpleasant.
Emotion are some start of feeling or
affective experience which are
characterized by some physiological
changes that generally lead them to
perform behavior acts.

4. Definition
 Emotion is a complex pattern of bodily
changes including physiological arousal,
feelings, cognitive process and behavioral
responses to a personally significant
situation.

5. Components Of Emotion
Four components of emotion are:
 Subjective Feeling
 Emotional Expression Or Expressive Behavior
 Physiological Changes
 Conscious Experience

6. Subject Feeling
 Subject feeling are what you believe and
what you are feeling. It is conscious and
an intellectual perception of a situation. If
the situation is intense enough, it may
provoke and emotion. Emotional feelings
are experienced before expression.

7. Emotional Expression For
Expressive Behavior
there are three ways in which an emotion
can be expressed:
 Facial: the face is believed to be the
most expressive part of the body. some
emotion like guilt, joy, anger, etc. can be
perceived accurately through facial
expression.

8.  Vocal: vocal also tells us about an
emotional state of an individual. A scream
communicate fear, surprise or pain. A
trembling voice means sorrow or
disappointment. A loud, sharp high pitch
voice means anger, irritability or
frustration. Slow monotonous voice usually
communicate sadness.

9.  Bodily movement: bodily movement and
gesture also indicate the emotional state
of an individual. In anger, a person
clenches his fist and moves forward to
attack. In fear person runs away, in joy the
person is excited.

10. Physiological Changes
Physiological changes that take place during
an emotional states are caused mainly by the
autonomic nervous system and endocrine
gland system.
 Increased blood pressure and heart rate
 Change in rate of respiration
 Dilation of pupils
 Sweating and decreased secretion of saliva
 Increase in blood sugar level
 Decrease mobility and gastrointestinal tract
 Erect hair on the skin
 Muscular tension and tremors

11. Conscious Experience
 An emotion is not only a pattern of bodily
changes, but also an experience.
Emotional experience is generally a
conscious feeling. In order to assess an
individual emotion, his feeling and
emotional experience is an important
indicator.

12. Changes In Emotional
Reaction
 emotional reaction affect the autonomic
nervous system the most. the following
external, internal and psychological
changes occur during emotional States.

13. External Change Internal Change Psychological
Change
Facial Expression Increased Heart
Rate
Clouding Of
Consciousness
Bodily Movement Increased Blood
Pressure
Blocking Of Memory
Gesture Changes In
Respiration
Decreased
Learning Capability
Voice Disturbance Increased Blood
Sugar Level And
Decreased Motility
Of GI System

14. Theories Of Emotion

15. James Lange theory
 James Lange theory proposed that an
event or stimulus cause a physiological
arousal and you experience the resulting
emotion.
 example

16. Example - The dog makes me feel
afraid and my heart pounds.
Fear
Body
Response

17. Cannon-bard Theory Of
Emotion
It states that -
 we react to a stimulus and experience the
associated emotion at the sametime.
 we feel emotions and experience
physiological reactions such as
sweating, trembling and muscle
tension simultaneously.

18. Forexample: I see a snake --> I am
afraid --> I begin to tremble.

19. Emotional Adjustment
 Emotional adjustment is the maintenance of emotional
equilibrium in the face of internal or external stressors.
Example, maintaining emotional control and coping
behavior.
 Emotions play an important role in human life. Under
ordinary circumstances the physiological reaction
during an emotion facilitated the adjustment of the
individual. These physiological reaction last for a little
time and do not have any harmful effect on our body.
But when an emotion recurs again and again and
remain for a longer time trouble may start, affecting
the physical health.
 Autonomic nervous system, brain structure and
hormones play an important role in emotional
adjustment.

20. Emotion In Health And Illness
By controlling our own emotion we can
eliminate half of the nagging illness that
plague our daily lives. our body functions
well when we are happy. there is an old
saying ‘Joy is the best medicine’
 Intense and unpleasant emotion disturb
the whole individual if they process they
may cause illness or worsen the condition
of one already ill.

21.  Negative emotion can weaken body’s
immune system and cause infection.
When the person is stressed or anxious he
may not take care of his health as well as
he should. He may not feel like exercising,
eating nutritious food or taking medicine
that the doctor prescribes. He may abuse
alcohol, tobacco or other drugs.

22. Modern medicine show that uncontrolled
emotionality is play a vital role in causation
of many physical disorder, which include:
 Peptic ulcer disease
 Epilepsy
 Diabetes and tuberculosis
 Bronchial asthma
 Increased BP
 Insomnia
 Chronic constipation
 Functional colitis
 Skin disorder like psoriasis
 Susceptible for infection

23. Next Class -
Stress