Question

CHAPTER 4 EMOTIONS, ATTITUDE THINKING CRITICALLY 1. Identify and list five separate emotions and five separate moods. 2. Imagine and describe a work situation where positive affect would be more effective in accomplishing key tasks. Imagine and describe a work situation where negative affect would be more effective in accomplishing key tasks. 3. In general, which type of affect (positive or negative) do you think would be more effective overall in a situation where you need to collaborate with a large team? Defend your response. Emotions in the Workplace

Answer 1

Five separate emotions are:

Happiness: Happiness is one of the fundamental human emotions, which is mostly wanted by everyone. Happiness is defined as the pleasant state of mind and sometimes expressed through facial expressions, body language or a pleasant tone of voice. Happiness is related to good health, a man can be healthy if he is happy in his life.

Sadness: Sadness is a type of emotional state that is characterized by feelings of grief, disappointment and hopelessness. Sadness can lead to quietness, lethargy, detached from others, crying and later on irritation or frustration may develop.

Fear: Fear is an emotional state that occurs when you face some kind of danger, get some kind of threat or encounter some frightening faces. At that time your body movement becomes very fast, heart beat increases, mind becomes tense and more alert, directing your body either to run fast or stay and fight.

Anger: Anger is a type of powerful emotion expressed by feelings of hostility, frustration and bitterness towards others. Anger increases your body temperature making you restless. Anger is expressed by facial expressions,like frowning, body language such as not looking to someone's face and tone of voice such as shouting at someone.

Surprise: Surprise is a state of emotional behavior that occurs when something unexpected happens to somebody. Such type of emotions can be positive, negative or neutral. A positive surprise can make you happy,while a negative surprise can make you unhappy and scared. It is expressed by facial expressions like raising eyebrows and widening the eyes.

Moods:

1. Cheerful: Cheerful is a state of happy mood with expressions like laughter, singing songs with low voice and a smiley face. A cheerful mood keeps a person happy and joyful. A cheerful person enjoys his work and helps others to stay happy.

2. Idyllic: This mood represents the calm and peaceful feeling. In this mood a person wants to stay alone, he wants to spend time with nature by sitting ideal.

3. Madness: This type of mood expresses confusion for a mind to decide what to do and what not to do. A person sometimes goes out of control, it may be due to excess happiness or angry state of mind.

4. Mysterious: This mood is really confusing, everything is hidden and puzzling. One can't know what's going on and to do now.

5. Romantic: This mood is really good, nowadays everyone is chasing after it to get relax from their job for a while. This mood makes a person happy and feel energetic for his next hour job. It can be created by candle light dinner, arranging a picnic and some outdoor activities.