Emotions influence how we respond to problems and challenges in our environment. They help us organize our thoughts and actions, both explicitly and implicitly, and they guide our behavior.
* 85% of psychological disorders include disturbances in emotional processing of some kind
* Emotions are believed to be fairly short-lived states, lasting for a few seconds, minutes, or at most hours.
* Use duration, provocation, modulation, expression and awareness
* Emotions/ affect: used to describe short-lasting emotional feelings. (eg. angry)
* Moods: are emotional experiences that endure for a longer period of time. (eg. Irritable)
* The expressive, or behavioral, component of emotion typically refers to facial expressions of emotion.
* The experience, or subjective feeling, component of emotion refers to how someone reports he or she feels at any given moment or in response to some event