The four components of an emotional experience
Experiences and emotions have always come hand in hand. The reason why we remember certain experiences are because of the way we feel about the emotions we had in that exact moment things happened. Like people always asked what is your happiest memory or what is your saddest memory because those are the memories that stand out amongst all the others. During these weeks that I did the journal about my experiences and emotions I realized that I am constantly feeling something even when am watching TV I have am emotion about a certain scene I saw. But throw out the time they where certain situations that stood out to me and that fall into the four components of an emotional experience. In this paper I would describe my experiences and how they relate to the four components. Like appraisals of a stimulus were the situation is the stimulus that triggers the certain emotion. Changes in bodily
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The reason is because I got to work and I came in and it was a good day so I was in a relatively good mood but I got in to work and I automatically started feeling irritated because work just annoys me because my managers are just really annoying. The first thing I noticed when I clocked in was the fact that there were a lot of people at the store. Seeing all the people made me feel even more irritated because a lot of people mean a lot of work and my managers just get really mad and frustrated when theirs a lot of people so it makes things even worse for the workers. The stimulus that got me irritated was work because I do not like my job and the fact that I have to deal with my managers who are really annoying makes it worse even worse. I realize just now that the fact that there was a lot of people is not what initially got me frustrated but it was the idea of work and going to work because work is a situation that I don’t
This essay concerns emotions and controversial arguments based on whether emotions are universal or a learned phenomenon. Most of the research in to cross cultural Psychology surround their attention on the biological aspect of emotions as being the primary source of the occurrence of emotions and has been the subject of numerous studies. However, culture is also known to affect and provoke emotional experiences. This essay will discuss the position of emotions from a Universalist view and from a cultural view. The following approach will focus on the universality of emotions.
Throughout history the way we live, the way we interact with other people and the way and reason we create art has been carefully structured by countless factors that we encounter every day of our lives. Many of these factors can be grouped together and categorised as 'Psychogeography', the term coined by French theorist Guy Debord in 1955. Debord's definition described the term as 'the study of specific effects of the geographical environment, consciously organised or not, on the emotions & behaviour of individuals’(1), in his work he deeply considered the effects that physical structure in the environment has on the way humans interact with each other and the space they inhabit. Guy Debord was a part of an organization that encouraged and supported the ideas of like minded artists, theorists and intellectuals called the 'Situationist International' (SI), whose ideologies were of prioritising the study and discussion of real life; temporal subjects that concerned modern society. A principle cultivated by the SI that closely relates to psychogeography is the idea of dérive ("drift"). Debord illustrates the theory of dérive as an environmental distraction, 'In a dérive one or more persons during a certain period drop their usual motives for movement and action, their relations, their work and leisure activities, and let themselves be drawn by the attractions of the terrain and the encounters they find there'(2). Dérive alludes that when humans detect changes in elements of our geographical surroundings natural instinct causes us to change our paths. Debord also describes the act of dérive in a way that connotes the idea of invisible auras that surround individual locations, "The sudden change of ambiance in a street within the spa...
With reference to the films you have studied for this topic, explore in detail two of the key elements that produce an emotional response in the spectator.
Nostalgia is described as sentimental feelings for the past. Things such as smell and touch can trigger nostalgia. Nostalgia is relating po...
...levator, and The Hitchhiker by, all show that emotions can influence a person’s reality. In Monster by Walter Dean Myers, Steve sees everything that happens around him as a movie so he can escape his reality. In The Tall Tale Heart by Edgar Allen Poe, the main character is so uncomfortable with the old man’s eye that he murders the old man. In The Hitchhiker, Adam is so convince that the old man is a ghost so he is afraid of him when really, Adam is the ghost. Due to those stories, emotions can affect someone’s reality very significantly. In The Elevator, Martin thinks that the old lady is going to eat him, but she’s just looking at him. Emotions even change people’s perceptions in real life too, an example is when you’re home alone and you hear a random noise in your house, because of these reasons, emotion can, and do change a person’s perception about reality.
People thrived to experience life, and to seek out emotions, whether they were good or bad. This emotion and imagination of th...
Set a mood. The tools that can be used are detailed descriptions and accuracy in structuring sentences. The author who wrote Of Mice and Men (the story regarding George Milton, Lennie Small, their dreams of one day owning land, and what they do to try to achieve that dream) does just that. One of the book’s key features is the method in which the various settings are written and described. In his novel, Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck sets a mood with each setting by the use of eloquent and vivid, or simple and plain descriptions, and different types of sentence structures.
Pervading us with an array of highs and lows, ranging from anger and sadness, to love, joy, and contentment, emotions vividly affect our daily lives. So, unequivocally it could be asked, “Why do emotions exist?” It is possible that the sole, underlying principle of emotions is to create a reaction in people and things in our environment; or perhaps they exist to be our governing channel of communication; or maybe they precisely exist to regulate individual self-confidence and disparage.
Weiss, H. M., & Cropanzano, R. (1996). Affective events theory: A theoretical discussion of the
AA theory by Clive Bell suggests the pinpoints the exact characteristic which makes a work true art. According to Bell, an artwork must produce “aesthetic emotion” (365). This aesthetic emotion is drawn from the form and formality of an artwork rather than whether or not it is aesthetically pleasing or how well it imitates what it is trying to depict. The relation of objects to each other, the colors used, and the qualities of the lines are seemingly more important than what emotion or idea the artwork is trying to provoke. Regardless of whether or not the artwork is a true imitation of certain emotions, ideals, or images, it cannot be true art unless it conjures this aesthetic emotion related to formality (367).
We are all knitted together by our Creator, including our inner most being and our emotions. When we interact with the world, we carry our innermost thoughts with us. In Proverbs 16:32, it says, “He who is slow to anger is better than the mighty,
Mayer and Salovey (2001) maintained that emotions help prioritise, decide, anticipate and plan one’s actions. In order to effectively manage one’s emotions, one must first learn to identify and recognise them accurately. They should not neglect their emotions as this will reflect lack of self-awareness. For example, when someone lost their loved ones, they choose to be in a state of denial allowing themselves to be drowned in depression and sickness. They refused to get away from feeling negative and find solutions to overcome their emotions. These group of people face difficulties in recognising, identifying and managing their emotions.
However, there are few moments in our lives where we cannot even describe our emotions. I remember exchanging playlist with Daniel Li and thinking to myself, “Wow these songs are not in english and are played on the piano, is Daniel trying to be special by choosing songs that were originally written in a different language?” I did as I was told and chose a quiet setting and plugged in my earphones. The first song started with a lullaby creating a relaxing sensation within me. But as the first song progressed, the pianist began to play more intensely and something inside of me changed. The relaxing sensation suddenly changed into a sense of euphoria. I knew that I was in a state of excitement but there was something else also there that I cannot describe in words. What emotion was I feeling? This feeling created by the pianist was something that I have never experienced before. I could not stop and figure out what this newfound emotion was until the song finally ended. It was as if my emotions were controlling me making me feeling this powerful emotion. The more intimate one is with an experience, then more likely that person is to experience a powerful
Have you ever wondered why people have certain reactions? I chose chapter eight on emotions for my reflection paper because emotions are something that everyone has and feels, yet cannot always explain or react to in the way you would expect. Personally, I have never been great at responding to emotions in a way that I would not regret in the future. Thus, naturally being drawn to this chapter as a way to expand my knowledge on how to react to things more positively. I also wanted to learn why I feel a certain way after events that would not affect most people and be reassured about my feelings. Opposite to that, it is nice to see that, while not always productive, others have the same reaction habits. Overall, emotions are a complicated
Emotion and reasoning are the two ways of knowing which work very well with types of areas of knowing which are science and art. Whereas for ethic it is a completely different thing because they are contradictory to each other. That’s the reason why human beings face such big setbacks on day to day basis. So which in more important in justifying moral disecions, reasons or emotions? In order to determine the relative importance of reason and emotion with regard to our morals, I will throw light on some of the key aspects that I think will go best with this situation or if they are contradictory and are both required to go with each other.