Watching a presentation about emotions

Name: Juliana Müller

1. The speaker talks about his background experience, why does he do that?

He does that to show that he has experience in the field, so he can establish
credibility.

2. Why is he devoted to study neuroscience and emotions?

Because when he was a student in electrical engineering, he used to work in the

backward of a psychiatric hospital and he saw human tragedies. He shifted to neuroscience
to understand our emotions.

3. What evidence does he present that supports his research with animals?

He showed that he mapped out sadness systems in chickens and discovered that
they were the same as in guinea pigs, concluding that they were very similar to those in
human brains. This is the reason why he has interest in animal mind currently.

4. Is there an introduction to his speech? How long is it? Does he provide an

overview of his speech?

Yes. The introduction is medium. He provides an overview of his speech and also
his background experience. He starts the speech mentioning a quotation and develops the
theme.

5. Does he:
1. get the attention of his audience? How?

Yes. He uses images with funny subtitles to make the audience pay
attention.

2. greet the audience? How?

No. He just begins talking about emotions.

3. establish credibility? How?

Yes. He shows a lot of proofs about his work. For example: the sadness
systems in chickens and the Primary Emotions.

4. address the public? How?

Yes. He includes the public in his speech. For example, “we are the
cognitive creatures”.

6. Are there instances when he evaluates the data and the information he is
presenting? How does he do that?
 Yes. He mentioned the sadness systems in chickens and compares to the guinea
pigs. He also mentioned how animals deal with emotions, for example: if you produce
anger response in animals, they turn it off because they do not like that feeling.

7. He introduces the notion of Basic Emotional Systems (or Primal Emotions),

which are presented in the chart.

SEEKING enthusiastic

RAGE pissed-off

FEAR anxious

LUST horny

CARE tender & loving

PANIC lonely & sad

PLAY joyous

1. For each Primal Emotion (which is presented as a noun), using derivation,

present a corresponding verb and an adjective. For example: SEEKING
(noun) - SEEK (verb) - UNSEEKING (adjective)

SEEKING (noun) - SEEK (verb) - UNSEEKING (adjective)

RAGE (noun) - RAGE (verb) - RAGEFUL (adjective)

FEAR (noun) - FEAR (verb) - UNFEARING (adjective)

LUST (noun) - LUST (verb) - UNLUSTING (adjective)

CARE (noun) - CARE (verb) - UNCARING (adjective)

PANIC (noun) - PANIC (verb) - UNPANICKY (adjective)

PLAY (noun) - PLAY (verb) - NONPLAYING (adjective)

2. Instead of using derived words which correlates to the nouns presented as

Primal Emotions, the speaker uses vernacular language. For example, pissed-off
instead of rageful or enraged. What is the effect of this strategy?

He uses this strategy to reach common people, because the vernacular

language refers to the way that people really talk with each other. Using this language
the public could stay more comfortable and, perhaps, more receptive to the theme.