Ap Psychology Chapter 8

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After completing the reading on chapter 8, emotions, I was intrigued on how our emotions can alter our feelings and also how they are sometimes hard to manage as they can interfere with what we are trying to accomplish. One of the positives that I took from the chapter was the idea of the fallacy of perfection which is the ability for someone to handle a situation with confidence. With this idea it is important for us to admit that we are not perfect and that we do have flaws. From this we can better ourselves emotionally and socially because as the book says no one likes a know it all. Also, it is good to admit that you are wrong every once to show that yourself it is ok to be wrong. At my job I have told a customer that "I don't know" or …show more content…

Since you can reflect on your thoughts if you write them down you can further think about a topic or even revisit it later on. This is something common that we see in preteen girls. They usually have a journal full of things that happened to them and most of them are emotions. For example, they might talk about a fun trip or talk about a crush they have on a boy in middle school and later they might revisit this and say, "what was I thinking?" It is always good to write down your thoughts as you can allow yourself to open up more. Throughout the chapter I found some negatives and one of them was of restricting your emotions through the use of social media. Similar to what we have read in previous chapters this is another example in how social media is a bad way to communicate with others. When we speak to someone on social media they can see or feel our emotions to our words. They cannot grasp the feelings of the words that we are speaking and in return can cause a misunderstanding and what we are speaking. Social media sites have tried to improve this by offering the ability to add emoji's to further convey your thoughts but the only way to truly express your emotions in through your voice and body

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