Emotions seem to us a kind of color sensations that characterizes our relationship to a particular quality of the subject, in other words - is a sensual tone sensations.Psychology definiruet emotions as mental processes that occur in the form of experiences and reflect personal assessment and the importance of internal and external situations for human life.Therefore, the main characteristic of the emotions is their subjectivity.
includes proper classification of emotions emotions, mood and affect, feelings, emotional stress.All emotional states affect the behavioral response of man.
kinds of emotions and their general characteristics
most powerful view of emotional reaction is affect.Affects represented intense, rapidly flowing and short-term emotional outbursts such as anger, great sorrow, rage, despair, horror.A characteristic feature of this species is the complete capture of the human psyche and encourages people to any action, it is a physical reaction to a stimulus.In the affective state of a change of mental processes.Logical thinking, attention and rationality gives way to impulsive behavior.
next group classification of emotions highlights own emotions.Unlike affects, they are long, moreover, they can be linked, i.e. be a reaction not only in a momentary stimulus, but also on possible or recalls.
Emotions can be expressed not only positively or negatively.Man inherent conditions such as stress relief, stimulation, sedation.
Taking into account the impact of emotions on human activity, the classification of emotions highlights sthenic stimulating human activities that increase the power and strength of the subject, and asthenia, causing a passive state, emotional reactions.
main or base emotions are considered:
- joy, that is a positive condition caused satisfaction.
- shame - emotional state, which is based on deliberate mismatch of their thoughts and actions are not only good manners, but also with their own convictions.
- suffering - a condition caused by the inability to meet their needs.
- fear - is a negative feeling, coupled with the knowledge potential or real danger.
- anger - negative state, arising from the sudden presence of obstacles in achieving objectives.
- contempt - a negative emotional state associated with a mismatch of principles or ideas the two subjects.
- disgust - the state of the human psyche with a minus sign, caused by various objects, interaction with which sharply contradicts the moral subject.
main properties emotions imply their indicative, as well as the close relationship with the biological processes.
following types of group - a sense.In contrast to the emotions, the feelings have greater specificity and objectivity, as well as related to the social sphere of life of the subject.Moreover, feelings are more durable emotional reactions.
Feelings are ethical or moral (occur when comparing the reality and the norms of society), the moral and political (the relation of man to the state and its organs), intellectual (there are in the process of cognitive activity of the subject), aesthetic (the relation of man to thebeautiful).
following separate group classification highlights the mood of emotional reactions - the most lasting emotional state, which characterizes the behavior of the whole person.The mood is associated with physical health and self-esteem of the person is unconscious assessment of reality, characterized by varying the duration of which depends on a number of factors, both external and internal.
mood affects the efficiency of human activity.
presented classification of emotion or emotional state is generalized.The attempts made by scholars, including Wundt, in the allocation of common characteristics for all emotions show that the whole system feels like three dimensions, each of which has two polar mutually exclusive directions.
