Emotion is often thought of as simply how one feels, but it is much more complex than that. Emotions have almost evolved as extensions of survival mechanisms and are essential to managing life (Schmidt, 2017). Without emotions, we wouldn’t be able to experience feelings in our lives. We would not get excited and nervous for the birth of our first child, we would not get angry when something we love gets destroyed, and we would not be happy when life is going great. Without emotions we wouldn’t be able to successfully learn and complete the learning cycle. Emotions, both good and bad, help us navigate the learning cycle and are influential to how we make decisions, reflect upon those decisions, and create new ideas for the future. According …show more content…
The first step of the learning cycle is information (experience), which continues on to meaning (reflection), then ideas (abstraction) and finally action (testing). As Zull describes in his book, when we learn we change; we do something new or better, or we may stop doing something altogether (2002). The completion of the learning cycle is heavily influenced on the stimulus of emotions and its influence on motivation, attitude, and behavior. The emotions felt during each phase of the cycle allows us to change and influences what happens next, whether we want to improve on something or stop doing …show more content…
This may be due to the difficulty I experience during the reflection process as well. I let my emotions play a huge role in my daily life and decision making process, perhaps a bigger role than I should. Once I receive information from an experience, I find it difficult to make sense of my emotions and reflect upon them. I am able to recognize whether the experience was negative or positive, but have difficulty reflecting on why I feel that way and coming up with new ideas for the future. Experiences for me are situational dependent and are heavily influenced by the details of the situation like why, how and
The emotions associated by an environment enable personal growth over a lifetime. Negative emotions like hopelessness, anger and sadness all influence and alter people deeply, leaving them
One explanation that claims emotions are universal comes from Darwin (1872 in Smith & Kosslyn, 2009). Darwin adopted an evolutionary perspective of emotions by contending that emotions are universal which consist of biological components in which individuals are able to recognise emotional expressions of individual’s across different cultures. Definitions of emotions are many and varied. Emotions influence behaviour and can be positive and negative. They are also associated with physiological and cognitive changes and can influence behaviour (in Smith & Kossyln, 2009).
Dr. Smilkstein’s learning process is brilliant. The Natural Human Learning Process describes the six steps that the human brain goes through when learning something new. The process describes the way we learn different skills and the way our emotions can determine the way we learn. This process has helped me and other humans to understand the way the human brain works along with the way we learn.
This essay will explore the authors meaning of reflection, how various reflective styles can benefit the practitioners within their settings, and how important reflection is within Early Years Practice. According to Appleby (2010, p.10), reflection is a generic term which describes various behaviours involving feelings, and thinking about thoughts and experiences, in order to examine issues and develop, new understandings and insights. Reflection within practice allows the practitioner to develop a sense of awareness around their daily activities, and helps them to evaluate how they could evolve these activities further, if the given opportunity was to arise again. Similarly, keeping a reflective journal
“The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival” (Aristotle, n.d.) Reflection is a process that begins with looking back on a situation, thinking about it, learning from it and then using the new knowledge to help you in similar situations in the future. We need to evaluate through reflection to determine whether change is needed. We can then decide what action is needed and what we should do the next time we are faced with a similar situation. It might not necessarily be something you have done wrong, it may well be you were happy with the outcome of a situation you had some input into and would do again.
Emotions are a significant part of our daily lives. They control everything from stress eating to confronting a friend. Emotions can also impact decision making abilities in varying degrees depending on your relation to the topic or situation at hand. However if emotions run every aspect and decision in your life, it is harder to remain objective and calm in certain situations. A balance of both emotion based decision making as well as unbiased/objective or fact based decision making is necessary to make decisions to better your personal life, or perhaps your company, work life, relationships, etc.
In order to help me with my reflection I have chosen Gibbs (1988), as the model to help guide my reflective process. This model comprises of a process that helps the individual look at a situation and think about their thoughts and feelings at the time of the incident. Reflective skills help us to think about what could have been done, so that if a similar situation occurs again the experience gained can be used to deal with the situation in a professional manner (Palmer et al 1997).
To start we ask what really are emotions? In all truthfulness emotions are really just compound and complex thoughts in your brain and the emotions anyone is feeling now is just an emotional state consisting of multiple emotions and other thoughts. Emotions are also more complex than this statement suggests. Almost everything is emotional; examples of this are that colors are more emotional than black and white along with things that are personal or close to us they are emotional rather than those that are not. Opinions are also very emotional an example is you think poorly of others especially if they have made you mad, angry, sad, or irritated but you think highly of others if they make you happy, joyous, needed, or smart. To continue with this thought of learning about emotions we shall transfer to the original use of them.
While we train people to become ‘doers’, to succeed in world of action, we don’t actually train them to explore the world of emotions.
...g’ said by Bob Doyle, a scientist, inventor and a philosopher. To sum up, our thoughts and feelings create our life. So, nothing is impossible by learning how to master our feelings by summon them through persistent thoughts. Emotions are valuable tools that instantly tell us what we are thinking.
Successful teachers develop the whole child by making integrated efforts to promote their student’s academic, social and emotional learning. Children need to be aware of themselves and others; make responsible decisions, and be ethical and respectful of the people around them.
Emotions are defined as "stereotypic patterns of the body, which are triggered by the central nervous system in response to distinct external environmental situations or to the recollection of memories related to such situations." (2) In other words, this means the emotions are the way the nervous system reacts to different situations one might find themselves in. In order to survive, emotional responses must be present. (2) "Whenever an emotion is triggered, a network of brain regions (traditionally referred to as the limbic system) generates a pattern of stereotypic outputs, which ultimately induce a biological response of the body." (2) These stereotypic outputs are what humans call emotions. They are predictable responses to certain situations, for instance when a person is in a sad situation, they will cry and feel depressed or if a person is in a happy situation, they will laugh and smile. These responses are because "specific circuits of the emotional motor system have evolved to both generate this stereotypic emotional facial response, as well as instantaneously recognize it when it occurs in somebody else." (2) This holds true for people in love, when you see someone in love you can tell because their face tells all.
There are universal emotions which are experienced by each individual around the world. Example for those emotions can be listed as fear, anger, disgust, sadness and so on. People born with those emotions and those emotions evolved to serve as a mechanism which would help individuals to cope with certain obstacles that they face in the environment they live in. Each emotion serves a purpose in the survival of the individual. (Darwin 1872/1965; Ekman, 1992, 1999; Izard, 1991, 1992; Tomkins & McCarter, 1964). Even though those emotions are universal and known to be experienced by each individual, each person has different levels of sensitivity towards fear, disgust or anger triggering cues. Those differences are believed to be due to traits of the environment that each person lives in (Abe & Izard, 1999).
Emotion, to be very broad, is an action that is produced by neural impulses, that have developed over the course of time through evolution. A more scientific definition of emotion, as described by the Head of the Department of Neurology at the University of Iowa College of Medicine. Antonio R. Damasio, M.D., Ph.D,
Emotion has a major role that it plays in the learning environment (Cleveland-Innes & Campbell, 2012). Educational psychologists believe the motivation, achievements, and the overall educational performance has a direct correlation to the human emotion (Cleveland-Innes & Campbell, 2012). That statement alone reflects the significant role that emotion plays in education. There is a major need for human emotion to be displayed in the educational environment and it really does not matter whether it is a brick and mortar class or an online learning environment; emotion must and in fact does play a role.