Unit 3 - Motivation, Emotion and Learning

An emotion is characterized by feelings of pleasantness or unpleasantness (cognitive) accompanied by physiological modifications (physiological), that lead to behavioral reactions (expressive). Emotions have three components: Cognitive, Physiological and Expressive components. Cognitive component are the conscious experience of emotions and the way they are labeled. Six primary emotions are: Anger, Disgust, Fear, Happiness, Sadness and Surprise.
Other emotions are: Contempt, Guilt, Interest, and Shame. According the Plutchik, there are eight other emotion with polar opposites, in whic…