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How emotion as a WoK helps or hinders the acquisition of knowledge.
To choose a subject for this kind of explanation doesn’t make it easy because all school subject require some sort of emotional reasoning and detachment. But for Psychology even though I do not take this subject at school I find it appealing to talk about it in the aspect of the Way of Knowing. Emotion plays a great roll in psychology, even if it’s only in class or as job as Psychiatrist.
Emotion is a very strong “thing” that cannot be touched or smelled or heard, it is a force that drives a person to do something and is affected by sense of perception and what the person experiences around him/her. That is why in psychology emotion can be used to define traits and how the person acts to identify what the person might possibly have, for example ADD or phantom pains. Not only has careful studying a person helped to define more frequently appearing disorders, but technology has helped to advance even further in the study of brain functionality, and its different actions to different behaviors and actions. It may have helped to define different diseases and disorders now with technology and meeting a shrink, but on the other hand emotion plays a large role in religious views.
