E MOTION Psychology(MLPS-201) By Prof. Dr. Ramez Bedwani

OUTCOMES Understand the meaning of Emotion Recognize Importance of emotion Learn types of emotion Know some examples of emotion disturbance

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

I MPORTANCE OF EMOTIONS 1. Method of communication 2. Build energetic activity 3. Essential for motivation and enthusiasm 4. Help in dealing with environment 5. Important for proper thinking, perception, attention and motivation. Moderate emotionoptimal performance High level of emotiondealing performance

H AZARDS OF EMOTIONS : 1. Influences motivation, recent memory, learning, perception and thinking 2. Has relation to impaired judgment and fanatics' Normal emotionsPathological emotions Enhance creativity and productivity do not lead to suffering do not endanger the biological reactions Hinder creativity and productivity lead to suffering. Endanger the biological reactions depends on the intensity and duration of emotion.

T YPES OF EMOTION

A. A CCORDING TO TYPE OF STIMULUS 1. Emotion of fear, in response to threatening stimulus. 2. Emotion of anger, in response to interference. 3. Emotion of determination in response to mastering a situation. 4. Emotion of submission, in response to overwhelming pressure or authority. 5. Emotion of eagerness, in response to unknown situation stimulating exploratory tendencies.

B. A CCORDING TO MATURITY : IS ALONG THE PRIMITIVE NATURE SCALE 1. Primitive emotions.(like fear and anger lie at the bottom of scale. 2. Mature emotions(like depression and sympathy) lie high up. The highest the emotion means it is most associated with thought and volitional act.

D ISTURBANCES OF EMOTIONS

1. PLEASANT a. Euphoria: subjective feeling of wellbeing and confidence irrelative of his physical or mental illness e.g. 1. Multiple Sclerosis, frontal loop timeouts 2. Mania and hypomania. b. Elation a sense of enjoyment and self confidence infectious from patient to other persons. e.g. Mania and hypomania.

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.

2. U NPLEASANT 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.

3. I NADEQUATE EMOTIONS : A - apathy : affected emotion expression and experience B- indifference : emotional expression abolished, emotional experience present C- blunted emotions : inability to express emotion.

I NAPPROPRIATE EMOTION Disharmony of emotions accuse in schizophrenia and some organic disease.

O THERS 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

Q UESTIONS : 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

A SSIGNMENT باسم خالد محمد زغلول طه بسمه مهدي رياض مهدي شابون بسنت اشرف محمد احمد شكري بسنت حسن علي محمد احمد تغريد محمود ابراهيم مصطفى Gender difference in emotional expression حسام الدين حسين محمد حسين مبروك حسام حسين منصور عبد السميع حماده محمد عشري عبد الحميد نصر حميد عبد الاله حميد مجيد دعاء السعيد رشاد قطب علي Differences between emotion, mood and affect دينا داود وليم داود يعقوب دينا عبد الرافع عبد الرازق الجعيدي رامى رافت لطفى عيسى رانيا محمد احمد محمد الشرقاوي رحاب سعد محمد قمري Motivation