Bruce Perry/Micele Keels/Bessel
What Happened to You?
Scripts: (Emotional learning) our sensory system receives a message (a stimulus) and an affect program is triggered with several facial and bodily responses.
Stimulus- Affect- Response- Script
affects are simply short-lived biological responses to stimulus conditions. They do not last very long. Where have all inherited nine affects over which we have no real control. They happen because of our neurological writing.
Feelings- describes what takes place once we become consciously ware that an affect has been triggered. “I’m afraid” Sequence of events is first a stimulus was perceived by the person’s senses they saw, heard, or felt something too loud or too big or too fast then second their affect system responded with fear, producing a number of bodily reactions; and then, and only then, did they become aware of the fear.
The term feels describes the situation when someone becomes consciously aware that an affect has been triggered.
Emotions are scripted responses, arising from the complex interaction between the social relationships of a child’ birth culture, that child’s inborn temperament and the bran;s motivational and cognitive systems effects on these interactions. Emotion is clearly a bio-psycho-social phenomenon.