Lesson 1/11/2016                   The meaning of emotion

During this lesson we watched a video on defining emotion and specifying what it is/does and useful for. In the video it said that emotion was a complex biological response to certain stimuli (ie. dark outside, silence and foot steps behind you promotes the emotion of fear). Scientists are still trying to specify it but are able to narrow it down to psychological, expressive and conscious behavior). These emotions are natural responses which allow us to learn and survive even if they are not generally well seen in our society.

The way we can divide an event and the response is with the first and second claim. The first claim would be the factual event (ie. a man loses all of his money in a gambling event). This can be recorded and clear evidence can be found. The second claim is the reflection on the event. Depending on how it affects you, these physical/experienced occurrences can promote a certain reaction which we describe as emotion (ie. the wife of the man now does not have enough money for her child's birthday present due to the husband's actions and feels despair, sadness and anger).