EMOTIONAL SECURITY AS THE OPTIMIZING FACTOR OF COGNITIVE PROCESSES

Abstract

The article is devoted to the issue of emotional security as a factor of personal development in psychological and social contexts. The subject matter of the article is emotional security as the factor of optimization of cognition. Emotional security has been defined as a feeling of acceptance and confidence that promotes optimal cognitive and adaptive processes. For a long cognitive processes (memory, attention, perception, understanding, thinking, decision-making, action and impact) time have been interpreted exclusively as rational ones while the emotional and sensory sphere was understood as irrational. In the context of modern psychology the connection between cognitive processes and emotional sphere has become obvious. It has been concluded that emotional security is an important condition for optimizing cognitive processes in the context of learning and creating a safe educational environment. It has been stressed that the cognitive effects of four types of emotions should be taken into account: 1) emotions of novelty – fear, surprise, interest which affect the processes of sensation, perception and attention; 2) emotions of attack – anger, rage and heroism which affect motor and mental processes; 3) emotions of acquisition – pleasure, joy and delight which determine memory processes; 4) emotions of loss – disgust, sadness and despair which facilitate the processes of forgetting and indirectly contribute to the acceleration of thinking and concentration of effort.

Key words: Emotions, Feelings, Emotional Security, Learning, Cognition, Mind, Worldview, Success.