What causes Emotions: Colors

I am researching emotions and asked one of the social workers and Hinsdale Central to help me answer them. These are the questions I asked her:

1.  What do people diagnose as "emotions", such as depression for example. How can doctor's perscribe medicine for something emotional? Are emotions something that can be changed with medicine?

2. Does everybody feel and express the same emtoions?

3. What are different theories on emotions? (Broad topic- anything you would know)

4. Do colors really know how you are feeling, like mood rings?

5. Do colors affect how you are feeling (Theory: darker colors make you sad, lighter colors make you happy) 

My professional responded:

1. Medication is prescribed through tests, evaluations, and assesements. Medicine is described to someone depending on what is going on with the client. 

2. Everybody does have the opportunity to feel the same emotions as each other. Such as: sadness, happiness, and cheerfulness. Although, people do express their emotions differently.

3. My professional didn't really know a lot about mood rings but told me that depending on the person, colors and weather can take a toll on how someone feels. 

What causes emotions?

*Performances can sometimes cause feelings such as:
1) aprrehension- this can include terror, and the person feeling apprehension can feel like he might give way (faint), or feel like his chest is beating out of his chest; nausea can also be a common feeling
This is often call something called "stagefright" something that emotions affect

*Emotions such as stagefright:
1) 85% of American suffer the racing pulse, stomach butterflies, trembling hands, and a parched mouth before one appears before a group or in public

*Emotions are the feelings of the mind, the equivalent of what are predicted to be physical sensations in ones body

* Emotions are a flush of adolescent desire, throat constructing awe, a paingful longing for a loved one, and the empty ache of loss

*"Emotions are terrors and elations, griefs and rages, adorations and revulsions, the spasms of mental sensation that cause the heart to leap of wither, that balance and hope against despair, that illuminated or cloud the human countenance"

*If one did not have emotions they would simply be dead, they would not feel anything that they were living (Or they would live an extremely boring life and wouldn't be able to do or achieve anything)

*Scientists realized that each emotions was different- they all involved the life of the mind, and the lives of many species

Title: Emotions: Journey through the mind and body

Authors: This book was made by the editors of time-life books

1st section of the book: Of the Mind as Much as the Heart

In this ______book________________________ (book/article, etc.), _______the editors of time-life books____________ (author)   __explains ____________(claims/argues/explains) that _emotions can be something that is known as a common "symptom", and can cause someone to actually experience sickness. 
(identify author’s argument/purpose).
One reason/fact/example that supports this main idea is stage fright. Stage fright can be caused by a speech or performance in front of a group, or an audience. This can cause people to feel nausea, and get sweaty, nervous, and feel like their heart is beating out of their chest. Another reason/fact/example that supports this main idea is . Finally, the author gives the reason/fact/example that emotions can cause something as stage fright, and can affect the human mind and body. (This supports the main idea)
These ideas are ____connected________________ (connected/similar) to __the text in the book that states "emotions are terror and elations, frights and rages, adorations and revulsions, the spasms of mental sensation that cause the heart to leap of wither, that balance and hope against despair, that illuminated or cloud the human countenance" (something you learned or experienced previously)because the quote states that something such as terror can cause a certain emotion, classified (or called) as stage fright. _ (explanation of connection).

What causes emotions?

Different definitions for emotion:
*Emotion is a feeling that is very a very private matter. Humans are can feel an extraordinary range or states which they can either feel or experience.
*Emotion is a state of psychological arousal that is an expression that can display a distinctive somatic and/or autonomic responses.
*Emotional states can be defined by your bodily responses
*The responses that can cause your emotion(s) are autonomously innervated visceral organs like the heart or the stomach
*Researchers study and examine emotions through animals and human beings
*Emotions can be defined as actions such as defending or attacking in response to a threat
Wilhelm Wundt was a great nineteenth century psychologist that though that emotions consist of three basic dimension that are opposite states:
1. pleasantness/unpleasantness
2. tension/release
3. excitement/relaxation
*Plutchik says that thought that there were eight basic emotions grouped i four pairs that are opposite of each other:
1. joy/sadness
2. acceptance/disgust
3. anger/fear
4. surprise/anticipation

What causes emotions?

http://www.school.eb.com/comptons/article-9274173

The article that I researched has three pages, but I focused on the first page. The first page explained the role of emotion overall- not importance or theories of emotion etc.

Important definitions (A part of bullet points):

Psychologists: investigate emotions through the process of learning, personality development, and behavior with other people.

Psychiatrists: research, diagnose, and treat mood disorders (Examples: Depression and Mania)

Anthropologists: research the similarities and differences between different cultures

Sociologists: look at the effect social interaction can be to one's emotions

Philosophers: study the causes and effects of rationality, ethics, and religion, and how these different emotional aspects can cause different emotions

Bullet points:

*Emotions can be known as feeling such as: joy, sadness, fear, or anger

*Emotions can also be known as chemical changes in the brain, physical changes in the body, or can be recognized by certain behaviors (Example: facial expressions)

*Emotions represent a synthesis of physical processes and result from specific stimuli

*Emotions are behaviors that one expresses when they feel a certain way

Questions:

*What makes us feel emotions?

*Do all living things experience the feeling of emotions?

What causes emotions?

 

https://webmail.hinsdale86.org/owa/redir.aspx?C=1666dc64f83b49cb8b4b8b2e778c99d8&URL=http%3a%2f%2fwww.school.eb.com%2fcomptons%2farticle-9274173?


Did you know that no one really understands how emotions/feelings such as joy, disgust, anger, or sadness occur? 


* Emotions can be activated by several things: processes in one's brain, changes in one's body, sense perceptions, and mental activity


* Emotions can be influenced by learning something or remembering something


* Constructivist: one's life experiences that are factors of determining how one will react emotionally


* Emotions are in relation to stimului triggering changes in one's body


* Constructivists study people's interactions with the environment, and how one's memories, perceptions, beliefs, and thoughts, as well as evaluations affect one's emotions


* Biosocial theories: are types of theories that emphasize the importance of biological factors in determining high levels of emotions


*Walter B. Cannon suggested that emotions can be "felt" in the thalamus, a structure near the top of the brain stem that works with sensory signals, and sends sensory signals to other parts of the brain 

What causes emotions?

1. What is the cause for different emotions?
2. What causes people to feel emotions?
3. What makes you feel different emotions?
4. Are emotions scientific or a theory/something you believe in?




What I already know:
I know that many people feel different emotions at different times. Emotions can be caused by people, animals, and objects etc. An example of an emotion is:
One day Alaina, my sister, had skittles on our counter. Of course, I envied her skittles because I didn't have any, and took a couple of skittles. She saw me taking her skittles, and started yelling at me. She questioned me: Why did I take her skittles without asking? I sat on the edge of the couch she was sitting on, and she became angry and upset that I had taken some of her skittles. She pushed me off of the couch and I fell into a picture-frame, cutting my eyebrow open. Something I can conclude from this is that other people's decisions can lead to emotions, and cause the people feeling those certain emotions to do something- good, or in this case bad.