PERDEV 4th

• Robert plutchik (1978 - 2006) - created a feelings manual to further understand the complexities of emotion
• The plutchik Emotion Circumplex - developed in 1980 by robert plutchik
• Intensity of emotions - the intensity of emotions may correspond to the degree b which an emotion affets ones behavior.
• the strength of emotion varies from very mild to intense
• Robert plutchik = he developed eight basic emotions that both humans and animals exhibit
• Variances of emotions - robert plutchik theorized that emotions are multidimensional or having various intensities
• Neurological basis of emotions - According to daniel Goleman, A science journalist, and author who is best known for his work on emotional intelligenxe, all emotions are impulses to act
• Daniel goleman - traced the origins of emotions from human races survival instinct to sense, detect, assess and act on any threat to its life and survival
• It is only the human brain that was gifted with the capacity to process on an intellectual level, the emotions being experienced, validating the reality of the danger, controlling the emotions being experienced and acting acccordingly given several options to choose from
• Neuroscientists - claim that the amygdala, neocortex, and the frontal lobe are involved in the creation of emotions
• Ledoux (1992) - challenged the model of the neuroscientists, recealing that some sigals directly reach the anygdala
• Hijacking the amygdala - immediate responses before rational processing
• prefrontal cortex - assciatedwith rational thinking, can regulate and delay these impulses hence highlighting the importance of emotional intelligence
• daniel goleman - popularized emotional inteligence
• Peter Salovey - initially introduced emotional intelligence and demonstrated how intelligence could apply to emotions
• John D Mayer - psychologist from the uni of new Hampshire, later collaborated with salovey in formulatig concept
• goleman (1995) - defines emotional inelligence as the capacity to motivate oneself, dontrol impulses, regulate moods, emphatize and maintain hope
• Intrapersonal - knowing ones emotions (self awareness)
• Intrapersonal - Managing emotions (self management)
• Intrapersonal - Motivating oneself (self motivation)
• Interpersonal - Recognizing emotions in others (empathy)
• Interpersonal - Handling relationships (social skills)
• relationships - two or more people talk to or behave toward each other
• relationship - the way in which two or more people or things are connected
• attachment - emotional bond or connectionthat forms between individuals, often in the context of primary caregiver and child but extending to other relationships as well
• attachment theory - focuses on relationships and bonds between people
• john bowlby -developed attachment theory as a way of understanding the tendency of people to with others
• suggest the way we navigate our relationships as we grow up is greatly influenced by our relationship with our primary caregiver from infancy to childhood
• three stages of separation anxiety - protest, despain and detachment
• secure - achieved when the caregiver or parent is attuned and responsiveto the infants needs
• secure - confident in the accessibility and responsiveness of their caregiver
• avoidant - caregivers are often emotioally unavailableor unresponsive to their needs
• avoidant - values independence and actively avoids oppurtunities for attachment to others
• anxious ambivalent - originates from an inconsistent and anxious caregiver.
• disorganized - combines aspects of anxious and avoidant.
• lust - driven by the sex hormones, testosterone and estrogen
• attraction - describes as love struck phase and it involves neortransmitters in the brain such as dopamine , neopinephrine and serotonin
• attachment - phase where couples continue with the relationship and necessitates log lasting commitments
• reciprocity - people have a strong tendency to like those who like them as well
• physical attractiveness - goes with subjective assessment of beauty and other aesthtic characteristics