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SKILL: Critical reflection, making decisions and problem solving
EQF LEVEL (INTERNAL REFERENCE): 2
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Introduction
By the end of this LU you will learn about the role of emotions and mood in decision making and discover the close relationship that exists between emotion and reason when analyzing information in order to make a choice.
Content
Mood and emotions are two aspects that greatly influence your life as well as that of others and also affect the way you make decisions.
You can distinguish mood from emotions basically by duration: emotions last a few seconds or minutes, while mood has a longer duration with constant intensity and characteristics.
Emotion is an experience that involves both psychological (your subjective experience) and physiological aspects (your heart beating faster, sweating more, etc.) that causes you to behave in a certain way.
Mood, on the other hand, is a deep state that lasts over a long period of time and is not triggered by a particular event. Even if you just consider the common language you normally use, you know that mood can be positive or negative and, therefore, you can be in a good mood or a bad mood.
If you are in a "good mood" during decision making:
If, on the other hand, you are in a "bad mood":
Both emotions and mood are important sources of information to use in evaluating situations during decision making and can be a guide to making a choice.
When you are faced with a decision to make you should, therefore, reason out why you are feeling certain emotions and then choose. Without the contribution of your emotions it is impossible to decide: if you do not have a good ability to understand the emotions you feel, it is easier for your decisions to be of poor quality.
Emotion and reason are often conflated, distinguishing between the "cold decision maker" and the "emotional" decision maker, but in reality they are perfectly integrated. In fact, it starts from knowing oneself and one's emotions that can give information that rationality will then use to make the best choice.
To make the decision making process, linking emotions and reason, clearer,we need to consider 3 steps which are fundamental to the process:
Three different strategies for analyzing information during decision making can be distinguished, and in each, emotions and mood play a different role:
Final test
Test 1 (Find the incorrect answers):
Mood and emotion are distinguished because:
Test 2 (correct choice)
If you are in a "good mood" during decision making:
Test 3 (fill the gap):
In decision making, emotion and reason are ________ :
Test 4 (Matching sentences/words):
Match each word with the corresponding sentence:
Language Point
Read the sentence below:
You can distinguish mood from emotions basically by duration: emotions last a few seconds or minutes, while mood has a longer duration, with constant intensity and characteristics.
The author uses a semicolon after the first part of the sentence, which is a stand alone sentence. This is done so the sentences flow better or to cut down on the number of words being used. It means the same as that is e.g.
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