Emotion

1. Psychology (MLPS-201) Emotion By Prof. Dr. RamezBedwani

2. outcomes • Understand the meaning of Emotion • Recognize Importance of emotion • Learn types of emotion • Know some examples of emotion disturbance

3. Definition: • Complex responses, Triggered and aroused by external events. Emotions are temporary due to physiological changes which occur as a response to same events.

4. Importance of emotions • Method of communication • Build energetic activity • Essential for motivation and enthusiasm • Help in dealing with environment • Important for proper thinking, perception, attention and motivation. Moderate emotion optimal performance High level of emotion dealing performance

5. Hazards of emotions: • Influences motivation, recent memory, learning, perception and thinking • Has relation to impaired judgment and fanatics'

6. Types of emotion

7. A . According to type of stimulus • Emotion of fear, in response to threatening stimulus. • Emotion of anger, in response to interference. • Emotion of determination in response to mastering a situation. • Emotion of submission, in response to overwhelming pressure or authority. • Emotion of eagerness, in response to unknown situation stimulating exploratory tendencies.

8. b. According to maturity: is along the primitive nature scale • Primitive emotions.(like fear and anger lie at the bottom of scale. • Mature emotions(like depression and sympathy) lie high up. The highest the emotion means it is most associated with thought and volitional act.

9. Disturbances of emotions

10. 1. pleasant a.Euphoria: subjective feeling of wellbeing and confidence irrelative of his physical or mental illness e.g. • Multiple Sclerosis, frontal loop timeouts • Mania and hypomania. b. Elation a sense of enjoyment and self confidence infectious from patient to other persons. e.g. Mania and hypomania.

11. c.Exaltation: intensive elation accompanied by grandiosity e.g. mania, hypomania, schizophrenia. d.Ecstasy: a sense of tranquility and power with peaceful feeling e.g. hysteria, epilepsy, schizophrenia, affective discarders, religious settings.

12. 2. Unpleasant emotions a. Grief: sadness secondary to loss of beloved person b.depressions: feeling of unhappiness, hopelessness, guilt, lack of appetite and in somina e.g. depression. c.Anhaedonia: lack of pleasure d. anxiety: Feeling of apprehension and fear e.g. anxiety disorders, thyrotoxicosis, hypoglycemia and physical illness. e. Panic and tension.

13. 3. Inadequate emotions: • A- apathy : affected emotion expression and experience • B- indifference : emotional expression abolished , • emotional experience present • C- blunted emotions : inability to express emotion.

14. Inappropriate emotion • Disharmony of emotions accuse in schizophrenia and some organic disease .

15. Others • A- depersonalization : unpleasant subjective awareness of changes in oneself associated with a change in the environment • Eg : in anxiety , hysteria , schizophrenia , elepression ,physical illness and under hashish • B- emotional liability : emotion changes from extreme to another • Eg : cerebral atherosclerosis . • C-arebrivalence : persist ant control dietary • feelings to words the same objects • Eg: in schizophrenia

16. Questions : • All correct except one : • 1- Emotions are important • 1- A method of corimunication • 2- build energetic activity • 3- Essential for motivation • 4- A method of study • 2- Normal emotions • 1- enhance creativity and productivity • 2- do not lead to suffering • 3- endanger the biological reactions

17. Assignment