Emotion Within the Workplace

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EMOTION WITHIN THE WORKPLACE
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Discussion..................................................................................................................................4
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Introduction
Cognition is defined as the mental process or action that people use in order to acquire
knowledge and understand and interpret the acquired knowledge through experience, senses
and thought. Cognitive behavior is basically the behavior that people use in order to
effectively solve the problems (Skelhorn and Rowe 2016). The cognitive level of analysis is
the process that includes thinking, perception, memory, problem solving, attention and
language. Cognitive psychology has one basic and fundamental principle that states that
human beings process information and the mental processes steer the behavior.
Cognition is the study of the way the mind works. The Cognitive level of analysis is the
mental process that people use to understand and evaluate things. These mental processes are
further classified in the following:
 Perception- Perception involves grasping information about the surrounding and
making sense of the information (Kazantzis et al. 2016). The minds of the people
identify the environment and observe what people generally imagine and expect to
watch in similar situations.
 Attention – This allows people to focus on several or one source of information that
are available to people. people notice and actively participate in anticipating rather
that normally observing the information
 Memory- This step focuses on acquiring, stocking and retrieving all the gathered
information about events, skills and facts.
 Language- This involves to use the symbols in order to manipulate the acquired
information and communicate these informations to others. This is necessary in order
to find accurate words in order to describe, define express the thinking of the people.
 Thinking- The process of thinking is the involvement of a wide range and variety of
psychological activities like problem solving and decision making (Lupyan 2015).
People assess their general understanding and the previous knowledge they gain from
people in order to work things out accordingly.
Mind works in many ways and paves way for the rise of emotions in human beings.
Emotions are the complex experience of people’s consciousness, sensation and the behavior
that contemplates significance of an event, a thing or the state of affairs personally (LeBlanc,
McConnell and Monteiro 2015). There are many scholars who have classified and