Lesson 20: Stress and Illness: Slide  8

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Emotions Are Created In Three Stages

  • The sensory part:
  • Something received by the brain that triggers the emotional response such as a sound or sight
  • The motor part:
  • The physical responses felt in the body such as palpitations, sweating, increased blood pressure, hair standing on end, blood rushing to the skin
  • The emotional charge:
  • The meaning that the brain adds to the inputs we sense and the physical responses we feel
  • Sensory inputs travel to the parts of the brain that control memory and are linked to a memory
  • The same sensory input can trigger a negative emotion or a positive one depending on the memories associated with it

Notes:

Pg 32-33, Sternberg, Esther M., 2001, “The Balance Within,” W.H. Freeman and Company, New York.

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