Emotion a unit lesson plan for high school psychology teachers

[Pages:56]Emotion

a unit lesson plan for high school psychology teachers

Revised by Shirley Collins, Mary Jarvis, Don Kober, Brian LeCloux, Trudy Loop, Robert Peterson, Wanda Wilson, Ronald Wood, and Amy Fineburg

Nancy Dess, PhD Faculty Consultant, Occidental College

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Emotion

a unit lesson plan for high school psychology teachers

Revised by Shirley Collins, Mary Jarvis, Don Kober, Brian LeCloux, Trudy Loop, Robert Peterson, Wanda Wilson, Ronald Wood, and Amy Fineburg

Nancy Dess, PhD Faculty Consultant, Occidental College

Emotion

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a unit lesson plan

for high school

psychology teachers

This unit was based on the original TOPSS Unit Lesson Plan on Motivation and Emotion developed by Fred Cunnington, Carol L. Farber, Jim Hoppe, Cheryl Jordan, Lisa G. Kopacz, Paul Mueller, Marti C. Mueting, and Chuck Schira (Craig W. Gruber, Editor; James E. Freeman, PhD, University of Virginia, Faculty Consultant).

We thank Heather Adams, PhD, of Ball State University, and James Kalat, PhD, of North Carolina State University, for their reviews of this document.

Copyright ? 2010 by the American Psychological Association. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or distributed in any form without prior written permission of the publisher.

contents

1 Procedural Timeline

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3 Content Outline

13 Activities

45 References

47 Resources

procedural timeline

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Lesson 1: Introduction to Emotion Activity 1.1: Human Emotions (with Handout 1.1) Lesson 2: The Neuroscience of Emotion Activity 2.1: The Autonomic Nervous System Lesson 3: Types of Emotion Activity 3.1: Differentiating Between Jealousy and Envy

(with Handout 3.1) Lesson 4: Emotional Experience Activity 4.1: Facial Feedback Hypothesis (with Handout 4.1)

Transparency Master 4.1: Theories of Emotion Activity 4.2: What Do You Fear? (with Handout 4.2) Activity 4.3: The PANAS (Positive and Negative Affect Schedule)

(with Handout 4.3) Lesson 5: Emotional Communication Activity 5.1: Flashing Faces (with Handout 5.1) Activity 5.2: Perspective Taking

procedural outline

content outline

content outline

Lesson 1: Introduction to Emotion

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I. Defining emotion

A. No well-accepted definition of emotion exists. Difficulty in defining emotion hampered research on it for a long time.

See Activity 1.1: Human Emotions (with Handout 1.1)

B. A useful definition is a relatively brief episode of synchronized evaluative physiological, behavioral, and subjective responses.

C. T he term emotion usually is distinguished from feelings, mood, and affect.

1. F eeling: the subjective experience associated with an emotion.

2. Mood: an emotional state that is general and extended in time.

3. Affect: encompasses feelings and mood and categories of emotion (e.g., positive or negative affect).

D. Emotion functions to:

1. Increase, decrease, or regulate arousal 2. Direct perception and attention 3. Influence learning and memory 4. Organize and motivate behavior 5. Communicate with others

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