Motivation And Emotion — Psychology STD 11 Humanities — Question
CBSE BoardEnglish MediumSTD 11 HumanitiesPsychologyMotivation And Emotion3 Marks
Question
What are emotions?
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Answer
Emotion is an internal experience not directly observable by others.
Emotions are a complex pattern of arousal, subjective feeling, and cognitive interpretation.
Emotions, as we experience them, move us internally, and this process involves physiological as well as psychological reaction.
Emotion is a subjective feeling and the experience of emotions varies from person to person.
At least six emotions are experienced and recognised everywhere. These are: anger, disgust, fear, happiness, sadness and surprise.
Izard has proposed a set of ten basic emotions, i.e. joy, surprise, anger, disgust, contempt, fear, shame, guilt, interest, and excitement with combinations of them resulting in other emotional blends. According to Plutchik, there are eight basic or primary emotions. All other emotions results from various mixtures of these basic emotions. He arranged these emotions in four pairs of opposites, i.e., joy-sadness, acceptance-disgust, fear-anger and surprise-anticipation.
Emotions vary in their intensity (high, low) and quality (happiness, sadness, fear).
Subjective factors and situational contexts influences the experience of emotions. These factors are gender, personality and psychopathology of certain kinds.
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