According to Wood (2011) emotion is "our experience and interpretation of internal sensations as they are shaped by physiology, perception, language and social experiences," (p. 173). After reading the text, personally I believe that organismic & interactive view of perception are linked to my view on emotion. Theses perspectives make the most sense to me because they both complement each other and they are simple to understand. The organismic view of emotion regards a stimuli response to an sensation. For example, an person who touches a hot pan may experience a painful emotion because the pan was scorching hot. Another example, can be is getting nerves or butterflies in your stomach before you perform for an event or contest. In addition, another example could be a visceral reaction when you see someone get murdered in a horror movies. Therefore, organismic perspective of emotion is triggered by out reaction to certain situations or things when variables are acted up. If that makes sense. As for the interactive perspective of emotional is influenced by society. Wood (2011) says "social rules and understandings shape what people feel and how they dor or don't express their feelings," (p. 176). For example the justices of the Supreme Court of the United States are not supposed to express any emotion during the President's State of the Union Speech. Another example, is expressing an endearing emotion when we see someone from our family graduate or when we see a pouting dog. Therefore, interactive perspective of emotion is set by the rules of society. Together both interactive and organismic views of emotion work together to express or limit various emotions in various social constructs.
-Sir Keithington
Hey Sir Keithington, after reading your post i am glad to say that we both have the same views on this subject of emotional influences. I too choose the organismic and interactive views of perception because they are linked to my views on emotion. These two concepts were really easy to understand while the other two were confusing. Your examples of the organismic and interactive views of perception were right on the dot. Your definitions of the two were very thorough. I liked the fact that you used direct quotes from the text. Great job on this post and keep up the good work!
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