Perceptions and Emotional Response

Here's a document I found online entitled:

"Exploring the Interface of the Type and Emotional Intelligence

Landscapes"

Bulletin of Psychological Type

Although not talking about landscape architecture, it does cover theories of perception and emotional response which we could relate to 'levels of understanding'.

Jung defined the function of Sensing as a mental process that allows us to “see what is.”

Sensation is the psychological function that mediates the perception of a physical stimulus. It is, therefore, perception . . . . Sensation is related not only to external stimuli but to inner ones, i.e., to changes in the internal organic processes (Jung, 1976, p.461).

Figure 1

The Recursive Nature of Sensing (Ying and Yang)

The Sensing function, therefore, is a Perceiving process that plays at least two roles: an extraverted role (Se) that allows us to take in information that is external to the psyche and an introverted role (Si) that allows us to compare information with known (internal) Sensing information.

The first book on emotions was published in 1872, Charles Darwin’s

emotions of that time and is still valid today. The term emotion has no universally accepted definition, but most researchers agree that it is

----> we could perhaps use this in the turning points in our timeline...what makes people take action? perceptions causing emotions?

see the document online:

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6V91-45X2R1R-1&_user=10&_coverDate=07%2F30%2F2002&_rdoc=1&_fmt=high&_orig=search&_origin=search&_sort=d&_docanchor=&view=c&_acct=C000050221&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=10&md5=348eabd70162f0e33d8de3e679473ed4&searchtype=a

The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals. This was the most comprehensive study and written account of the expression ofa type of neural impulse that motivates a person into action. For example, fear motivates a person into the fight or flight response. From a dynamical systems perspective, emotions can be seen as discrete systems, each with its own energy and goal. For example, the goal of anger is to overcome, disgust to reject and contempt to dismiss the stimulus. Emotions can be recruited and self-organized into larger systems, or motivational complexes. It is not uncommon for anger, disgust and contempt to form a motivational complex sometimes called the hostility triad.

Laura

Henry L. Thompson, Ph.D.