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Crash Course Psychology #26: Emotion, Stress, and Health

Basic emotions, facial feedback, valence and arousal, stress responses, cortisol, chronic disease risk, and the brain–gut connection are examined across fifteen prompts.
Grades
Grades 7–12, Middle School, High School
Pages
2
File type
Zip

Updated Feb 21, 2024

Subject
Social Studies, History, Psychology
Topic
emotion, stress
Resource types
Worksheets & Printables, Worksheets

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What's inside this resource

Crash Course Psychology #26 provides educators with a supplemental worksheet to accompany the Emotion, Stress, and Health episode. Students are guided through the 26th episode in Crash Course's acclaimed video series as they learn about facial expressions, levels of emotion, defining stress, the nervous system's role, and the impacts of chronic stress. This teaching resource features a 2-page digital handout with 15 critical thinking questions that assess comprehension. An answer key allows educators to efficiently grade the worksheet. This versatile product works well for whole-class discussion, individual work, or as a flipped classroom prep guide. The thoughtful worksheet questions have students analyzing key concepts like emotion models, depression's link to pessimism, and the physiological impacts of ongoing anxiety.

In the classroom

Teaching tips & learning objectives

Learning objectives

  • Compare facial-feedback and valence–arousal explanations of emotion

  • Classify catastrophes, life changes, and daily inconveniences as stressors

  • Explain how chronic stress can affect the body and brain–gut system

Teaching tips

  • Map the basic-emotion and facial-expression items before shifting to physiological stress responses.

  • Use the brain–gut question to connect hormone responses with the earlier distinction between moderate and chronic stress.

Skills covered

  • Model interpretation — learners compare facial-feedback and two-dimensional accounts of emotion.

  • Systems reasoning — responses connect stress hormones with immune, digestive, and mental-health effects.

  • Concept classification — external stressors are sorted into catastrophes, major changes, and everyday inconveniences.

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Concepts & topics

Core concepts

  • Emotion

  • Stress

  • Cortisol

  • Brain–gut connection

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