Blog Post #2

Research is important because we can use it to find out facts and information about tons of different things. If we didn’t use research we would be no where and wouldn’t fully understand the things we need to or want to. Psychology of emotions is relevant to my life because as far as I know everyone around me has emotions including myself. I think it’s important to understand how and why emotions work as they do. This was found in the article titled "Journey Through the Psychology of Emotions. Besides that I just think it’s a very interesting concept. One thing I learned from this chapter was the three different ways to describe behavior, case studies, surveys, and naturalistic observations. I think they’re important because they give you different types of descriptions to choose from to let you decide how specific you want to get into your research. Another thing I learned was what correlations were. Those are important because they help you to see possible cause and effects and the relationships that are shared. The last thing I learned was the different research methods, descriptive, correlational, and experimental. These methods allow having different levels of involvement. You can just describe, observe, or actually experiment in your research