Reflection Paper On Emotions

Our emotions affect us in so many ways. Emotions affect the way we behave, our views and opinions, our relationships and our decision-making; therefore, they are very relevant to our day-to-day lives. It is important that people have an understanding of these emotions and that they are able to interpret them. Emotions can both help and hinder our ability to best live our lives. It is also important to realize that even our emotions are shaped and biased by our environment and those close to us.

Good afternoon classmates have been excellent to share are experience and the insight of our weekly discussions this semester. I've increased my knowledge this semester on the explanatory material of understanding that everyone in the community is affected society and through open communication of understanding our social surroundings. When I first took this class, I didn't know the difference between psychology which is the study of behavior versus sociology which is the study of people. Next, I would say I learned the importance of critical thinking and following the steps to research because if you don't come up with the question first your research is doomed. Chapter 2 the Zimbardo’s Experiment: The Individual and the Social Role has stuck

Emotions are interesting because everyone feels them, most people do not know how emotions take their curse and arguably no one really knows how emotions function. There are many theories aimed precisely at defining emotions and how they work but there is a lot of work to be done. An article posted in the New York Time’s website about a week ago explains a wonderful aspect about emotions and how people can utilize emotions to benefit their lives.

As you know, there is always a strong, lovely connection between brothers, both inside and outside. Brothers are usually love and protect each other. Some are not. They mostly fight and tease each other but not other people, but one of them will never leave the other when that one has a serious trouble . These are the ways of how they perform the

Attempts to define “emotion” have proved to be rather difficult. Instead of searching for a comprehensive definition, Gross (2011) describes the three core features of emotions. First, emotions occur when an individual decides that a situation is relevant to his or her goals. Second, emotions are multi-faceted, and involve both subjective and physiological experiences, as well as behaviors. The third feature involves the authoritative nature of emotions. They have the powerful ability to interrupt ongoing processes, assert their priority over other activities, and force their way into awareness. For example, some traditions describe emotions as “disorganized interruptions of mental activity” (Salovey & Mayer, 1989). Emotions are such an

Gwen Zwanziger has been mourning the loss of her seventeen year old daughter for over a year now. Cause of death? The Flu. Gwen’s daughter, Shannon complained of having a sore throat, nothing out of the ordinary, one hundred and thirty of her classmates were out sick with the flu as well. She did not get her flu shot either. Shannon was given throat spray and bed rest until she felt up to par, except that never happened. Shannon was sick for about a week and progressively became more ill. Finally her father took her to the doctor while her mother stayed home to clean her room and change her sheets, to see if there was anything to help. The doctor brushed it aside and claimed rest was all she could do and the illness would pass in time. Later,

The theory of emotional contagion has been an interest of many writers both in the field of psychology and science. The root is not clear whether who

Emotions are used in everyday life, whether it be just a simple smile that makes happiness disperse in your brain, or a death of a loved one that causes sadness. The basic emotions are joy, interest, surprise, sadness, anger, disgust, contempt, fear, shame, and guilt. The way we see emotion in ourselves and others can be very complex because we sometimes assume they feel a certain way just based on their actions or even facial expressions. When emotion is discussed in psychological terms, it is not based on one thing, instead it’s a mix of bodily arousal, expressive behaviors, conscious experience. Many theories try to explain how emotion works.

Emotions are a necessary part of our whole humanity. They may be more than we have learned to be comfortable with, but they are not too much.

Research is playing with puzzles, making sense of the nonsensical piece by piece. What’s a greater puzzle than the brain? In middle school, to procrastinate, I watched videos on why we dream, why we feel, why we forget. The more I saw, the more I wanted to know. So, in high school, I enrolled in AP psychology. When I read the syllabus, my stomach cartwheeled at knowing I would have to dissect a sheep brain. As I reluctantly walked into the lab, the fresh formaldehyde smell battered my nostrils. Little tool kits of torture were lined up on every table. While the rest of my group used them to emphatically scissor away, I simply observed, hands paralyzed to my side. Then, the teacher commanded each of us look at the hippocampus. When I picked up the grooved grey blob, I realized my slightly shaking forceps held most of that sheep’s knowledge, memories, and

We are currently learning about emotion and how universal it is. As a class, we just talked about Paul Ekman and his colleagues and the study that I just read about. We learned that emotion isn’t something that we learn. We learned that we are all born with it, no matter what culture and background we have. This study and what I learned in my class just tied everything together about emotion and facial expressions. All the questions that I had about the study were answered in the book and all the questions that I had about the book were answered in this study. Since learning about emotion and how it relates to people, I can now use what I learned from this study and my class and put it in my everyday life with the people around

The words shot out of her mouth while she cried. “I have breast cancer,” my mother announced while in the arms of my father. As evolutionary principles describe, we fear the unknown, and to my family, this diagnosis presented an unknown. Remembering that my best friend’s mother passed away from this disease, I felt my world turn upside down. My mom was in shock, my dad was scared. A couple of days later, the physician contacted her. To our surprise, he was not discussing treatment options. Instead, he apologized profusely, and told my mom that she had been misdiagnosed. Her results indicated a false positive. Until then, my perception of medicine had been strictly scientific, but my mother’s psychological state in that moment rattled my

Many of us may have specific personality traits (dispositions to behave in a certain way, as expressed in the behavior of a person in a variety of circumstances, Cervone & Pervin, 2013) that might be negative, particularly when coping with stress and or facing challenges. Some of these traits have been due in part to inherited factors, copied from our parents or caregivers during childhood, or due to environmental influence. Regardless of the case, there is good news for all of us; we can change our brains. However, it takes persistent practice and time. We can develop new habits by training our brain.

Chapter 3 explores the concept of universally shared basic emotions, an idea that was first advanced as a theory by Charles Darwin. Paul Ekman and Jakk Panksepp studied the concept of

Q: Have you met some new people recently? Were your family and friends able to meet your new friend/s? if not, why aren’t they able to meet them?