Adolescent Psychology

Adolescent Psychology

Introduction

Emotion is a natural physiological phenomenon. Emotions are presumably the most intriguing of all mental courses of action and two stages of feeling and response. There might be obvious or secret responses, emotions, yet there is "dependably" a response and a feeling associated. Much has been composed on the psychology of emotions and there are currently numerous speculations and in accordance with the most significant theory of James Lange, emotion is recognition of physical states. This implies that it is essentially a reaction in the body and when there is the awareness of this reaction, the emotions are experienced.

There are several basic emotions: anger, disgust, fear, joy, sadness and surprise. Emotions can be explained as an intricate mental procedure in which our thoughts are interrupted suddenly be a new state. The new state is accompanied by connected ideas, with strong effectual tone, which is further supplemented by various organic feelings.

Discussion

Emotion is an organizer of the primary processes of the intuitive mechanism, governed by the principle of pleasure, when assessing the good and the bad and progressive categorization in the infant lived. Therefore, emotion gives rise to a tangible demonstration that expresses a feeling, in response to the action of a given environment. There are three components of emotion:

Cognitive component: It is the component that allows the individual to process stimuli and produce reactions to them.

Behavioral component: It is the component that allows the expression of emotions through behavior.

Physiological component: The component responsible for the biological changes that occur in the body in the presence of emotions, such as increased heart rate, release of hormones, shaking and sweating (Bates, 1994).

Physiological Component

Many physiological events can be regarded as so many evidence of the expression of an emotion. The researcher may be interested in the expansion of pupils, body temperature, pressure blood, the rate of concentration of certain hormones or neurotransmitters, or in asymmetry of cortical activity. However, we do talk only about four major indices physiological, in connection with their tool measurement and emotions that are their most frequently associated.

There are a number of studies on the physiological aspects of emotion and most of these studies have suggested that the limbic system including the hypothalamus, hippocampus and other structures are responsible for the expression and perception of emotions. Emotions affect our daily behavior, our choices and our perceptions. They make communication more effective and give it a high level of impact. In addition, emotions play a key role in all learning processes acting on the storage capacity of the learner on the retention of information and attention. During the acquisition of knowledge, emotions act at different levels of the human mind.

There are many categorizations of emotions and the emotions of these states are caused by internal evidence in the body such as pain or hunger, and by external stimuli as in the case of emotions of anger or fear. Emotions can be positive or negative and we know that positive emotions include love and happiness, empathy, ...