Emotion Diary Example
Complete this diary over a period of 3 days. During waking hours, write down the various emotions that you experience at preset times during the day. You must write down your emotions at least 7 times each day, and you may select when those times will be. If you want, you may use Izard's Differential Emotions Scale (which is: anger, contempt, disgust, distress, fear, guilt, interest, joy, shame, and surprise) or any other emotion scale you choose to define your emotions. After the end of the three days, compute the frequency of each emotion experienced across the total reporting period. (For example, anger=1, joy=2, sad=1, anxious=3, etc.) After completing your Diary of Emotions, which physiological (internal and expressive body changes) and cognitive (specific thoughts occurring during an emotion) components of emotions did you recognize in your own experience? Explain your answer.
Emotions recorded were (see attached)
How do I explain the emotions using the physiological and cognitive components with these experiences? I am clueless.
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Detailed three paragraph discussion of the nature of emotions: physiological, cognitive and experiential components. Particular reference to the Izard Differential Emotions Scale and how to use a diary to record and observe emotional experience.
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PSY205: Diary of Emotions Data Collection Grid
Day 1 - Saturday Day 2 - Sunday Day 3 - Monday
Time Emotion(s) Notes Time Emotion(s) Notes Time Emotion(s) Notes
Received
Mothers Another
9 am Joy 9 am Surprise 9 am Joy
Weekend day gift day off
from
kids
Learning
how to Mothers Gardening
11 am Interest put up 11 am Surprise day gift 11 am Interest and yard
vinyl from work
fencing mother
Trying to Feeling
Nice day,
1 pm Anxious finish 1 pm Joy loved by 1 pm Joy
gardening
fence all
Still
working Brother
on fence called to Unexpected
3 pm Anxious so much 3 pm Surprise wish me 3 pm Joy arrival of
other happy spouse
stuff to day
do
Hanging
Great Worked on
5 pm Joy out with 5 pm Joy 5 pm Exhausted
day Fence
family
Kids
Very Great didn’t
7 pm Exhaustion 7 pm Joy 7 pm Anxious
tired Day complete
homework
So much
Very Very
9 pm Exhaustion 9 pm Exhaustion 9 pm anxious to do so
tired tired
tired
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