UNIT 9

Emotion

You have surely been angry at someone, and you have been afraid of something. You love some people and hate some. Anger and fear, love and hate are emotions. Some other emotions are joy, hope, delight, despair sadness and disgust. Every one has emotions.

Emotions come upon you suddenly. You do not thinks emotions, you feel them. You do not think, "This is an uncaged tiger, I have heard that tigers sometimes kill and eat human beings. I am a human beings, so I will now be afraid of the tiger." Instead, you feel afraid instantly upon finding your self near a tiger out of its cage. You do not think afraid, you feel afraid.

Emotion can be aroused when information comes to you trough your senses. You see someone dear to you, and you feel love. You hear a scraping sound m a dark room, and you feel fear .You smell an unpleasant odor and you fell disgusted Emotions can also be aroused by thoughts You think of someone who embarrassed you, and feel anger or hate. You think of a test

you are not ready to take, and you feel fear or sense defeat.

Thought you are not aware of can also bring out emotions. These are called unconscious thoughts. For instance, when you were very small you may have been scared by a big, barking dog. You forgot about this unpleasant happening, but it is stored in your unconscious memory You may now be nervous of a big dogs.

People seem to be born with a few emotions and gradually learn the rest. A newborn baby fears falling and loud sounds. Yet very young babies do not seem to fear anything else. They must learn to be afraid of fire dangerous animals, and other things that can harm them. The fears of falling and loud sounds do not have to be learned.

The "word" emotion comes from the Latin word exmovere , meaning " to move you ,or to stir up." Your emotions move you, carry you away stir you up, and cause you to act. Joy may make up jump up and down, clap your hands, and smile or laugh. Fear may make you run and scream, or stand and tremble.

Emotion also affect you body in ways you are not aware of fear cause the adrenal glands to secret into your blood a chemical substance called adrenaline. Adrenaline makes your beat faster, your blood to go from your muscles, stopping digestion. Sugar stored I your muscles and liver sent into your blood. You may tramble and perspire. Your body is ready to react to what is causing your fear. You may run away, or try to fight or hide.

Exercise 1

1.                   What is emotion? Give some examples to support you answer.

Emotion, etymologically, means “to move you” or “to stir up” from Latin word, “Exmovere”. It means that your emotions move you, carry you away, stir you up, and cause you to act.

2.                   How does emotion come to you? Give the example to make you idea clearer.

Emotion comes upon me suddenly. I do not think emotions, I feel them. For example: I do not think, “This is an uncaged tiger, I have heard that tigers sometimes kill and eat human beings. I am a human being, so I will now be afraid of the tiger.” Instead, I feel afraid instantly upon finding myself near a tiger out of its cage. I do not think afraid, I feel afraid.

3.                   You do not think emotion, you feel them (p.2). what does this statement mean?

From the example situation in the second paragraph that tells about facing a tiger, you feel afraid instantly upon finding yourself near a tiger out of its cage. You do not think, “This is an uncaged tiger, I have heard that tigers sometimes kill and eat human beings. I am a human beings, so I will now be afraid of the tiger.” So, the afraid-feeling that comes up instantly is the feeling that we are not think before.

4.                   What is you opinion if someone doesn’t have unconscious thought?

If someone does not have unconscious thought, I think he/she will not have any emotion. For example: a baby who feels hungry wants his/her mother to give him/her a food. So, she/he will cry if his/her mother does not give him/her any food. The hunger is called unconscious thought and the cry is called emotion. I think it is impossible that every baby will never felt hungry. If the baby will never felt hungry, he/she will never cry for foods.

5.                   Observe the statement of the first and the last sentences of paragraph 5.  What do you think of the relationship of both?

The first sentences:  “People seem to be born with a few emotions and gradually learn the rest.” the examples of “a few emotions” are the fears of falling and loud sounds. Whereas, “the rest” means emotions that come later. So, the babies will learn the later emotions gradually along with the increasing of their ages. The examples of “the rest” are afraid-feeling of fire, dangerous animal, and other things that can harm them.

The fears of falling and loud sounds come out when the people were just born, so, the fears of falling and loud sounds do not have to be learned.

6.                   How do babies "Learn" to be afraid of the dangerous things?

Babies “learn” to be afraid of the dangerous things by having a few emotions when he/she was just born and gradually by learning the rest. A newborn baby fears falling and loud sounds. Yet very young babies do not seem to fear anything else. They must learn to be afraid of fire, dangerous animals, and other things that can harm them.

7.                   What happens if we do not have emotion?

If we do not have emotion, there would not be something that moves us, carries us away, stirs us up, and causes us to act.

8.                   What is the relationship between emotion and our body?

The relationship between emotion and our body is the fact that emotion also affects our body in ways we are not aware of fear causes the adrenal glands to secret into our blood a chemical substance called adrenaline.