Emotions and Psychological Disorders

Emotions are your personal experience of 3 components. Tick each component:

• Physiological Responses

• Subjective Feelings

• Expressive Feelings

• Expressive Behaviour

Physiological responses are:

• The brain's response to a stimulus.

• The body's response to a stimulus

• A spiritual response to a stimulus.

Subjective feelings are the ____________ of an emotion.

• Experience

• Intensity

• Lack

Expressive behaviour is behaviour that ....

• Expresses an emotion

• Expresses an opinion

• Reveals your point of view.

Some characteristics of psychopathy are...

• Lack of empathy.

• Lack of guilt.

• Caring for others.

• Poor behaviour control.

• Strongly feeling emotions.

Some characteristics of sociopaths are that they...

• Tend to break laws.

• Can feel empathy.

• Act impulsively.

• Care about the safety of others.

The difference between a psychopath and a sociopath is that psychopaths cannot feel emotion or empathy but sociopaths can.

• True

• False

Alex is told that he might not be accepted into university. This causes Alex to feel fear. What are some physiological responses that Alex might experience [select more than 1]:

• Heart racing.

• Sweating.

• Dilated pupils.

Abdul's girlfriend breaks up with him through text. This makes Abdul feel enraged. He throws his phone at the wall, breaking the phone.

Is Abduls subjective feeling of anger high or low intensity?

• Low intensity.

• High intensity.

Tabby is playing with a Barbie doll at preschool. Tommy runs up and steals Tabby's Barbie. Tabby starts to scream, cry and roll around on the floor.

What expressive behaviours are communicating Tabby's sadness? [Select more than 1]

• Crying

• Screaming

• Playing with the Barbie.

• Rolling around on the floor.