Thoughts Behind Feelings: teacher key

Feelings, grade 6 edition, written for 6th grade. Feelings are often caused by what a person thinks about a situation. Read how a changed thought can change a feeling.

Read the book. Print this page for the key.

Questions and answers

1. What does reappraisal mean?
   • Forgetting a feeling
   • Running away
   • Trying to change your thoughts about a situation (answer)
2. What tends to bring fear?
   • Thinking a situation is dangerous (answer)
   • Being in a quiet room
   • Eating lunch
3. When was Darwin's book on emotions first published?
   • 1772
   • 1872 (answer)
   • 1972
4. What might change how you feel about a situation?
   • Changing your thoughts about it (answer)
   • Forgetting it
   • Doing nothing
5. What did the Stanford study find?
   • Breathing raised heart rates
   • One minute of guided slow breathing lowered children's heart rates (answer)
   • Children cannot breathe slowly

Words

• reappraisal: rethinking
• regulation: managing it
• amygdala: brain's alarm
• parasympathetic: calming system
• Darwin: wrote about emotions