01. Sensations, Affects, Feelings, Emotions

01. Sensations, Affects, Feelings, Emotions

Sensations : 

Sensations are sensory perceptions. They generate awareness by physical (by five organs of sensing) and by mental and psychological faculties.

Sensations generate affects. 

Affects : 

Affects – affects are pre personal. They are non conscious experiences of intensity. 

Affects are unformed and most abstract.

Affects prepare body for action.

Affects convert to feelings through identification and naming with words  (language).

Feelings : 

Meanings : Feeling Is a verbal noun denoting action of the mind. Feeling is also a perception of events. Feeling is awareness of our body of something in it or on it.

Feelings are sensations labeled through experience, language and biography. 

Affects convert to feelings through identification and naming with words (language).

This is a key to understanding rackets and racket feelings. Quite a few of the useful feelings such as of joy, happiness, success, pride, love and affection are not taught nor demonstrated with identifying words nor learnt. Not so with feelings such as angry, sad, afraid, quiet, alone, to which attention is paid and even encouraged by parents, elder siblings, other elders and grown ups at home and in the neighbourhood.. 

Infants have no capacity to experience feelings because they have no language.

So we learn feelings during parenting, schooling and adverse attention for the ones we know. 

Emotions :

Emotions are displays or projections of feelings. 

They can be genuine or feigned.

The word “emotion” dates back to 1579, when it was adapted from the French word émouvoir, which means “to stir up”. 

The term emotion was introduced into academic discussion as a catch-all term to passions, sentiments and affections.

A fundamental difference between feelings and emotions is that feelings are experienced consciously, while emotions manifest either consciously or subconsciously.

Emotions play a crucial role in our lives and important functions at the intrapersonal, the interpersonal, and the social and cultural functions of emotions. 

The first concerns the intrapersonal functions of emotion, which refer to the role that emotions play within each of us individually. 

Emotions are rapid information-processing systems that help us act with minimal thinking. 

Emotions prepare us for behavior because they orchestrate systems such as perception, attention, inference, learning, memory, goal choice, motivational priorities, physiological reactions, motor behaviors, and behavioral decision making. 

The second concerns the interpersonal functions of emotion, which refer to the role emotions play between individuals within a group. 

The third concerns the social and cultural functions of emotion, which refer to the role that emotions play in the maintenance of social order within a society. 

Emotions inform us of who we are, what our relationships with others are like, and how to behave in social interactions. 

Emotions give meaning to events; without emotions, those events would be mere facts. 

Emotions help coordinate interpersonal relationships. 

Emotions play an important role in the cultural functioning of keeping human societies together.

For more read at this link : 

https://nobaproject.com/modules/functions-of-emotions