Emotional states - is a mental phenomenon, which occurs in humans as a result of reaction to an object or situation.They are not static and have a different effect severity.These states determine human behavior and depend on the nature of the data and its psycho.
basic emotional states: characteristic
Emotions are characterized by three parameters:
- Valence.This so-called tone emotions may be negative and positive.An interesting fact is that the negative emotions emit more than positive.
- intensity.It is estimated the strength of emotional experience.External physiological manifestations are the greater severity of the stronger emotion.This parameter is closely related to the autonomic nervous system and CNS.
- Stenichnost.This parameter affects the activity of human behavior.He presented two options: sthenic and asthenic.Asthenic emotions contribute to paralysis of action: a person lethargic and apathetic.Sthenic, on the contrary, encouraged to take action.
Types
emotional state is divided into five categories, which are identified by the strength, quality, and duration of symptoms:
- mood.One of the longest emotional states.It affects human activities and may occur gradually or suddenly.Mood is positive, negative, temporary and stable.
- affective emotional states.This is a group of short-term emotions that suddenly embrace rights and are characterized by a clear manifestation of the behavior.Despite the short duration, the impact affects the psyche is very large and has a destructive character, reducing its capacity for organization and adequate assessment of reality.This condition can only be controlled by a person with a developed mind.
- Stressful emotional states.They occur when a person falls into an extreme situation from a subjective point of view.High stress may be accompanied by an affect, if you have suffered great emotional damage.On the one hand, stress - a negative phenomenon, which adversely affects the nervous system, on the other hand, it mobilizes human, sometimes it can save your life.
- frustration.It is characterized by a sense of the difficulties and obstacles, introducing human depressed.The observed behavior of anger, sometimes aggressive and negative reaction to events regardless of their nature.
- emotional state of passion.This category of emotions caused by human response to the material and spiritual needs: for example, a strong desire of something makes him desire for an object that is difficult to overcome.The observed behavior of the activity, the person feels the rise of forces and often becomes more impulsive and initiative.
With this classification, there is a more detailed, which divides the emotions into 2 categories.
Psychologists allocate 7 basic emotions:
- joy;
- anger;
- contempt;
- surprise;
- fear;
- disgust;
- sadness.
essence of basic emotions that they are experiencing all the people who had a harmonious development without pathologies of the nervous system.They are equally manifested (albeit to varying degrees, and quantity) from different cultures and social environments.
This is due to the presence of certain brain structures that are responsible for one or another emotion.Thus, a specific set of possible emotional experiences in man originally laid.
On the other hand, there is another category of emotions - Variation.These are experiences that are determined by the specifics of the environment, education, culture.They differ from the baseline that they manifest themselves in human behavior differently.
