Discussion topic: This week
you will try to come to a conclusion as to whether emotions evolved as a
limited set of universal functions or are constructed actively as part of our
decision-making.
Why Do We Need Emotions?
Step 1: Watch Green, Feeling All the
Feels: https://youtu.be/gAMbkJk6gnE
Step 2: Watch Green, Emotions, Stress,
and Health: https://youtu.be/4KbSRXP0wik
Step 3: Address the following
questions in discussion in one paragraph for each of the three questions:
Questions
1.
Choose
one emotion and describe its biological/physiological, behavioral, and
cognitive components. Based on these components, choose the theory of emotion
that you think best describes our emotional experiences and explain why this is
the case. (Hint: the chapter this week only discusses the Cannon-Bard and
James-Lange theories, but the videos here discuss Schachter and Singer’s
Two-Factor theory, Zajonc’s theory, and the Facial Feedback Hypothesis, which
you can use in your answer).
2.
Describe
two emotions that could easily be confused by the person feeling them. Why are
some emotions confused and not others?
3.
Choose
one emotion and describe its adaptive significance. Would human survival be
negatively affected if we lacked this emotion?
Discussion topic: This week you will try to come to a conclusion as to whether e
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