Helpful Word Definitions Impulses originate quickly from our sensations and lead to spontaneous action. Sensations are feelings that originate directly from our perceptions and lead to impulses. Attitudes are the longer term remembered feelings that have been woven into one's personality. Attitudes allow us to weigh alternative actions, then constrain and discipline our conduct. Moods reflect one's emotional energy.
Appetites are signals that reflect our needs.
There are animal appetites such as hunger, thirst, sex and spiritual appetites such yearning for truth, inspirational music and closeness to God. Thoughts are the cognitive experience where we compare, infer, evaluate, judge, make decisions and plan. Anxiety is the wavering or frustration of an emotion. The Emotion List With four groups of emotions contain four emotions each, we have a total of sixteen emotions or 256 possible combinations. Combined with different energy levels and simultaneous emotions, the result is a huge spectrum of emotions.