Chart These Emotions Chart these words on an XY axis with the Y axis ranging from strong to weak and the X axis ranging from extremely positive to extremely negative Ecstatic guilty suspicious angry frustrated hysterical sad confident embarrassed happy mischievous disgus ID: 548362
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Emotion as a Way of KnowingSlide2
Chart These Emotions
Chart these words on an X-Y axis, with the Y axis ranging from strong to weak and the X axis ranging from
extremely
positive
to
extremely negative
.
Ecstatic, guilty, suspicious, angry, frustrated, hysterical, sad, confident, embarrassed, happy, mischievous, disgusted, frightened, enraged, ashamed, cautious, smug, depressed, overwhelmed, hopeful, lonely,
lovestruck
, jealous, bored, surprised, anxious, shocked, shySlide3
6 PRIMARY Emotions
Happiness
Sadness
Fear
Anger
Surprise
DisgustSlide4
Can You Identify Them
Anger?
Sadness?
Happiness?
Fear?
Surprise?
Disgust?Slide5
Emotion as a Way of Knowing
Questions:
1) How does emotion relate to knowledge?
2) Are there ways you think emotion enhances knowledge? If so, how?
3) Are there ways you think emotion hinders accurate knowledge? If so, how?
(Note: hinder = to detract from, take away from
or make something more difficult to achieve) Slide6
Emotion as an Obstacle to Knowledge
Perception
W
e perceive someone else’s emotions through:
Sight – body language, actions, slight facial expressions, shuffling of feet
Hearing – tone of voice, pause of silence, sigh
Touch – sudden squeezing of someone’s hand, clammy, “hairs on the back of your neck”
Smell – it is suggested that dogs can smell fear?
Taste – what is meant by “it leaves a bitter taste in your mouth?”Slide7
Barriers
Perception
Emotional Coloring
Our perception of things can be affected by strong emotions
Example-If you are in love with someone you are likely to be blind to their faults; whereas is you loathe them you are only likely to see their faults
Reason
If you hold a belief with too much passion, this can prevent you from being open-minded
Language
Use of slanted and emotive languageSlide8
Rationalization
When we have a particular emotional attitude toward something, we may manufacture bad reasons in order to justify it.
It has been going on for a long time:
Rationalization from the 1950s