DirectionChoose ONE of the discussion themes below and write a three-paragraph response in the discussion forum. Remember to add the question and question number you are responding to below to the first line of your response.Q 5.1. Chapter 7 discusses several different perspectives on emotions; the organismic or physiological view, the perceptual view, the cognitive labeling view, and the interactive/cultural view. Which perspective – or which combination of several – makes the most sense to you? Why? Explain how the perspective you favor gives you insight into emotions that you don’t get from the other perspectives.
Q 5.2. Discuss how social roles and expectations influence how men and women express emotions. Explain whether or not you believe roles and expectations are changing and discuss the impact of these changes on the ways in which men and women express emotion. What impact does your culture have on these expectations?
Q 5.3. Chose three of the life events from the list below. Generate a possible framing and feeling rule for each of those situations based on your own family and culture. Framing rules are guidelines for defining the emotional meaning of situations (such as funerals may be defined as sad events while weddings are joyful), and feeling rules tell us that what we have a right to feel or what we are expected to feel in a particular situation (for example, it may be appropriate to feel pride when getting a high grade on an exam). Think about these events from different perspectives – would your parents expect you to have one feeling rule but your peers would expect a different feeling rule. Did anyone explain these rules to you? If not, how did you learn them? Do you think it is important to follow these rules, why or why not?Birth of a child
Family vacations/trips
First day of college
Failing a course
Finding out a close friend is dating the person you desire
Commitment ceremony/wedding
Divorce
Family reunion
High school reunion
Break up of a committed romantic relationship
For your initial posting, write your reflections on one of the questions from the questions above or the list of questions at the back of your chapter entitled Thinking Critically. You may also choose from the other resources at the back of each chapter to include Engaging With Ideas, Assessing Yourself, or the Continuing the Conversation sections.
Please write the question out in your posting and your reflections on that question or activity you completed should follow.
Provide feedback (reply) to at least two of your fellow class members to continue the discussion for each chapter. Your initial posting should be around three paragraphs in length, while your reply posting should be at least one paragraph
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Choose ONE of the discussion themes below and write a three-paragraph response in the discussion forum. Remember to add the question and question number you are responding to below to the first line of your response.Q 8.1. Describe the communication climate in the job you have currently or one you held in the past. Identify specific types of communication that you have experienced that have created the confirming or disconfirming climate in your workplace. Who is responsible for the communication climate in your workplace? How does that person or persons behavior set the tone for the entire climate? Is there anything that you do or could do to make a more confirming workplace climate?
Q 8.2. Pick a relationship (that you are currently in or that you were in at one time) and provide examples for each of the dialectical tensions mentioned in Chapter 8. Explain how you manage each of these tensions in your relationship. How is the management technique working? Are you both satisfied with how you are managing the tensions? If the relationship has ended, were dialectical tensions a contributing factor?
Q 8.3. Briefly describe one relationship in which you feel on guard and defensive and one relationship in which you feel comfortable and supported (no names, just general relationships – friends, spouse, parent). Describe and analyze the communication behaviors in each relationship, both yours and those of the other person. To what extent do the defensive and supportive communication behaviors discussed in the text explain the climates of these two relationships? How can you change your own behavior to affect the communication climate in the relationship in which you feel defensive? Do you think this would help your situation, why or why not?
For your initial posting, write your reflections on one of the questions from the questions above or the list of questions at the back of your chapter entitled Thinking Critically. You may also choose from the other resources at the back of each chapter to include Engaging With Ideas, Assessing Yourself, or the Continuing the Conversation sections.
Please write the question out in your posting and your reflections on that question or activity you completed should follow.
Provide feedback (reply) to at least two of your fellow class members to continue the discussion for each chapter. Your initial posting should be around three paragraphs in length, while your reply posting should be at least one paragraph.
