Unit 4 - 绍兴文理学院元培学院.ppt

Psychology in Our Daily Life
绍兴文理学院元培学院外语系
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Psychology in Our Daily Life
People are driven by irrational forces or primitive instincts. Inner struggle between instincts and conscience often led to disaster which was manifested in the form of personal tragedies such as murder and suicide or collective tragedies such as war.
Sigmund Freud
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Task 1 A Story of a Chinese Idiom
The following silent flash movie is about a Chinese idiom. Try to tell the story after seeing the movie. And say what psychological state the story tells us.
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Task 1 A Story of a Chinese Idiom
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An Illusory Snake in a Goblet
In Jin Dynasty there was a man named Yue Guang who was fond of drinking. One day, he invited a friend to his house to drink together. Suddenly, his friend saw the reflection of a snake swimming in the goblet. He got so much frightened that he took ill on bed after getting home. And neither any doctor or any medicine could cure his illness. When Yue Guang got to know the cause of his friend’s disease, he asked the friend to drink at his house again.
Yue made his friend sit where he used to, pouring a goblet of alcohol for him, and asked him if there was any snake reflection in the goblet. There was still a “snake reflection” in the goblet! Then Yue casually took away the bow hanging on the wall. This time, the “snake reflection” disappeared. “So it was the bow reflection that was in the goblet!” His friend at once got well from his illness. “An illusory snake in a goblet” is used to describe the psychological state of being frightened caused by taking illusions as reality.
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Have you ever heard or experienced such stories like Yue Guang’s friend, in which your psychological state influences your behavior or mood, etc.? Tell the class your story.
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The following are some adjectives related to the field of psychology or emotion. Choose a word and write a one-sentence story to describe an experience that illustrates the adjectives chosen.
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