Emotion

=Emotion as a WOK powerpoint=

=The Nature of Emotion matching activity - review for test=

=Emotion as a Way of Knowing vocab review=

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 * Overcoming Fear
 * **Dealing with Divorce**
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 * The Affect of Paternal Presence on a Child
 * **Perseverence (overcoming adversity)**
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 * ** Acceptance (accepting the reality of life´s challenges and circumstances) **
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 * **Life & Death (living life to its fullest and in the present; overcoming fear**
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 * Imagination and Creativity (embracing imagination and creativity as a
 * **Human Mind and Spirit (the human mind and spirit can prove to be**
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 * Memory (an integral part of life as it is composed of the sum of our experiences
 * **Love (the beauty of love as a source of strength, unity and motivation)** ||  ||
 * Family (the unity of family as a force that embodies love and support for one another) ||  ||

=The Diving Bell and the Butterfly scrapbook template=

=Essential Questions= Reflect on these questions to get a better idea of how emotion influences what you know and how you know it, and the extent that it may obstruct knowledge.

=Notes for Emotion=

This is all you ever wanted to know about Emotion as a Way of Knowing. Powerpoint found at www.gwashingtonhs.org.

=Class Notes= These are the class notes that accompany the powerpoint above.

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Diagnostic: Can you detect the fake smile?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/humanbody/mind/surveys/smiles/



James-Lange Theory
By emoting, or creating a facial expression that corresponds to an emotion, you can help to create that emotion. This can help to change your mood or mindset. Such as emoting a genuine smile (also known as the [|Duchenne smile]), you can change your emotion to happy. media type="youtube" key="EYL64yzO4bM" height="315" width="560"

Nature of Emotion
 * 1) Why can emotion be suspected as a reliable way of knowing?
 * 2) What do the romanticists believe? Do you agree with this view?
 * 3) What are three words that are associated with reason? What are three words are associated with emotion?
 * 4) What are the six primary emotions? Why are they classified as primary?
 * 5) Summarize the James-Lange theory. Do you agree with what it asserts?
 * 6) How does this theory suggest that emotions disappear or are generated?
 * 7) In what way are we able to empathize with others’ feelings?
 * 8) What about emotions does the James-Lange theory not recognize? What else influences our emotions besides the physical aspect?
 * 9) List 4 social emotions. Have you ever felt a social emotion? Give a specific example, in context.
 * 10) How does our intelligence affect our emotions?
 * 11) Does a change in belief lead to a change in emotion? How (give an example)?
 * 12) What do emotions provide us with that allow us to engage in intellectual activity? What particular emotion especially helps with this?

Comprehension questions: Emotions as an obstacle to knowledge, emotions as a source of knowledge
 * 1) Explain how strong emotions distort the other three ways of knowing.
 * 2) What does it mean when someone rationalizes their pre-existing beliefs? How does the fable of the Fox and the Grapes illustrate this?
 * 3) How could a cigarette smoker who doesn’t quit represent a rationalization?
 * 4) When one rationalizes, they do not think objectively. They allow their prejudices to lead to biased perception, fallacious reasoning, and emotive language. What must one do to escape from this vicious circle?
 * 5) What else does emotion cause, in addition to distorting our beliefs?
 * 6) How did the Stoics view the world? Explain what they meant by apathy.
 * 7) How do emotions allow us to make decisions? Do we use reason alone to make decisions?
 * 8) Draw a representation of the “continuum of mental creativity,” with rational and emotional on each end.
 * 9) “Emotion that is sensitive to the real nature of a situation is more rational than one that is not.” Analyze this idea. What does it mean?
 * 10) Genocide is defined as “(certain) acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such”? Why would someone find it horrifying?
 * 11) What are two irrational emotions? Give an example of one, from the text or from your own experience.

Photo gallery - genocide http://www.ushmm.org/genocide/take_action/gallery

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The 1994 Rwandan Genocide

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/3594187.stm (BBC slideshow of the Rwandan Genocide)