Motivation And Emotion — Psychology STD 11 Humanities — Question

Our emotions play quite a significant role in guiding and directing our behaviour. Many times they are seen to dominate our behaviour in such a way that we have no solutions other than behaving as they wish.

• Emotions shape our personality according to their development. If a person has no emotional current in him then he becomes handicapped in terms of living in a normal way.
• Emotional experiences, whether positive or negative are responsible for giving directions to the human behaviour.
• Emotions have a tremendous energy and flow for carrying the individual along with their currents.
• Under the influence of a specific emotion, the individual is forced to behave according to the intensity or nature of the feelings aroused by that emotion.
• The individuals are seen to frown, howl, grind their teeth and close their fist under the influence of an emotional reaction known as anger.
• Similarly they are seen to be fleeing, perspiring and trembling under the influence of the emotional reaction known as fear and deeply involved, attached and blossomed under the influence of the emotional reactions of love and affection.
• The emotional reactions named as anger, fear and love etc., are some of the particular examples of various emotional experiences and reactions through which every individual passes at one or the other occasion in the span of his life.