As you read the text, try to answer the following questions. Emotional behaviors are qualities of an individual that can be observed, measured, or recorded. A smile is an emotional behavior because it can be observed. Other emotional behaviors are an increase in heart rate, a frown, a scream, and a laugh. All of these behaviors may be studied while an individual is explaining his feelings.
Emotional experience includes all of the feelings of emotion.
Happiness, sadness, terror, and depression are all examples of emotional experience. Emotional experience does not always have to accompany emotional behavior. We might be happy without smiling or sad without crying. When psychologists measure emotion, they are measuring emotional behavior. If we could describe much of our emotional behavior in terms of the physiological process of our bodies, we would have gone a long way in pinning down just what emotion is all about.