Emotions

• Emotion and Emotional

  Relating to or arising from one's emotions
• Emotions are powerful Forces
• Emotions


  • Drive us into action or prevent us from taking action
  • Can be overwhelming when not controlling them
• Positive Emotions


  • Love
  • Joy
  • Happiness
• Negative Emotions


  • Anger
  • Fear
  • Sadness
• Biological Component: Physiological Arousal


  Heightened activity in both our mind and body
• Reticular Activation System (RAS)


  Connects the primitive brain stem and the cortex
• Cannon - Bard Theory


  The experience of emotions as a physiological response of the thalamic region of the brain
• James Lange Theory


  Emotion is the result of physiological arousal