EMOTIONS

WHAT IS EMOTION?

 A natural instinctive state of mind deriving from

one’s circumstances, mood or relationship with
others.
 Instinctive or intuitive feeling as distinguished
from reasoning or knowledge.
BASIC TYPES OF EMOTIONS

 Happiness
Happiness tends to be the one that people strive
for the most. It is often defined as pleasant emotional state
that is characterized by feelings of contentment, joy,
gratification, satisfaction and well-being.
BASIC TYPES OF EMOTIONS
 Sadness
Sadness often defined as a transient emotional state
characterized by feelings of disappointment, grief, hopelessness,
disinterest, and dampened mood. It can often lead people engage
in coping mechanisms such as avoiding other people, self-
medicating and ruminating on negative thoughts.
BASIC TYPES OF EMOTIONS
 Fear
Fear is a powerful emotion that can also play an important
role in survival. When you face some sort of danger and experience fear,
you go through what is known as the fight-or-flight response. This
response helps body to either run from the danger or stand and fight. It
also helps you to ensure preparedness to effectively deal with threats in
your environment.
BASIC TYPES OF EMOTIONS
 Disgust
Disgust can be originated from a number of things
including an unpleasant taste, sight or smell. This emotion evolved as a
reaction to foods that might be harmful or fatal. Also to poor hygiene,
infection, blood, rot and can trigger a disgust response. People get
disgust when they observe others engaging in behaviors that they find
distasteful, immoral or evil.
BASIC TYPES OF EMOTIONS
 Anger
Anger can be characterized by feelings of hostility,
agitation, frustration, and antagonism towards others. It is often thought
as a negative emotion but it can sometimes be a good thing. It can be
constructive in helping clarify your needs in a relationship, and it can also
motivate you to take action and find solutions to things that are bothering
you.
BASIC TYPES OF EMOTIONS

 Surprise
Surprise is usually quite brief and is characterized by a
psychological startle response following something unexpected. This
type of emotion can be positive, negative, or neutral. It can also
trigger the fight-or-flight response when startled, people may
experience a burst of adrenaline that helps prepare the body to either
fight or flee.
SENSES
BASIC SENSES

 Touch
Touch is the thought to be the first sense that
human develops. Pressure, temperature, light touch,
vibration, pain and other sensations are all part of the touch
sense and all attributed to different receptors in the skin.
BASIC SENSES
 Sight
Sight, or perceiving things through the eyes, is a complex
process. First, light reflects off an object to the eye. The transparent outer
layer of the eye called cornea bends the light passes through the hole of
the pupil. The iris (colored part of an eye) works like the shutter of a
camera, retracting to shut out light or an opening wider to let in more
light.
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 Hearing
This sense works via the complex labyrinth that is the
human ear. Sound is funneled through the external ear and piped into
the external auditory canal. The vibration travel to the middle ear.
There, the auditory ossicles – three tiny bones called the malleus
(hammer), incus (anvil) and stapes (stirrup) – vibrate.
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 Taste
The gustatory sense is usually broken down into the
perception of four different tastes: salty, sweet, sour and bitter. The sense
of taste aided in human evolution because taste helped people test the
food they ate. Taste is sensed in the taste buds and most of them are on
the tongue, but they also line the back of the throat, the epiglottis, the
nasal cavity and the esophagus.