Name: Crash Course Psychology Episode Worksheet | 25 - Feeling All the Feels
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What's inside this resource

Crash Course Psychology: Feeling All the Feels Worksheet High school students enjoy and comprehend complex topics like psychology because it connects to real life. Psychology's relatability engages students. This 2-page worksheet supplements the Crash Course Psychology video "Feeling All the Feels" with 15 comprehension questions. An answer key is included to allow self-checking. The engaging 10-minute video and worksheet can be used in various ways: whole class viewing with the worksheet to immediately apply knowledge, small groups to re-watch and discuss, or individually if devices are available. Watching more than once cements understanding. Check out other psychology resources like sociology worksheets, simulations about psychology experiments, lesson materials on cults and moral philosophy, and civics activities. More materials for high school social studies are available in my store to boost engagement with relevant, thoughtful resources.

In the classroom

Teaching tips & learning objectives

Learning objectives

Define emotion and explain how psychologists describe the relationship between emotions and bodily reactions
Compare the James-Lange theory, Cannon's objection to it, and the two-factor theory of emotion
Summarize the Schachter and Singer experiment and what it suggested about the role of cognition in emotion
Distinguish the high-road and low-road neural pathways and the roles of the sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous system in emotional arousal

Teaching tips

Play the linked Crash Course episode once through, then a second time pausing at the points covered by each of the 15 questions, since the episode moves through several theories in quick succession
Use the answer key to model one or two full-sentence answers before releasing students to complete the rest of the worksheet independently
Pair questions 3-4 and question 6 for a compare/contrast discussion, since they cover competing explanations (James-Lange vs. Cannon's objection vs. the two-factor theory) for the same phenomenon
Follow up question 15 (optimal arousal) with a brief class discussion connecting it to students' own experience of performing under pressure (e.g. before a test or a game)

Skills covered

Video-based note-taking — students extract and record answers to 15 targeted questions while watching a Crash Course Psychology episode.
Theory comparison — students distinguish between the James-Lange theory, Cannon's objection, the two-factor theory, and Zajonc's arousal-labeling theory of emotion.
Experimental reasoning — students summarize the Schachter and Singer epinephrine experiment and what its results suggested about cognition's role in emotion.
Physiological process description — students explain the high-road/low-road neural pathways and the sympathetic/parasympathetic nervous system's role in emotional arousal.

Good to know

Questions teachers ask about this resource

How thorough are the teacher's provided answers compared to the student worksheet questions?

Each of the 15 answers is a full explanatory paragraph rather than a short phrase — for example, the provided answers explain not just that Cannon disagreed with James-Lange, but the specific reasoning (that similar bodily reactions like a racing heart could signal fear, excitement, or anger, making it hard to explain how the reaction alone causes a specific emotion).