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Surprise!: M. Alexandra Toro S
Surprise!: M. Alexandra Toro S
M. Alexandra
Toro S
What is surprise?
The word "surprise" has 3 different meanings:
Countable noun
A surprise is an unexpected event, fact, or piece of
news.
Uncountable noun
Surprise is the feeling that you have when something
unexpected happens.
Verb
If something surprises you, it gives you a feeling of
surprise.
Source: https://www.collinsdictionary.com/es/diccionario/ingles/surprise
Definition
It´s one of the seven universal emotions when we encounter
unexpected sounds or movements. As the briefest of the
universal emotions, its function is to focus our attention on
determining what is happening.
Source: https://www.paulekman.com/universal-emotions/what-is-surprise/
Is surprise
an emotion?
Source: https://greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item/why_humans_need_surprise
Luna and Renninger (both psychologists) outline four stages of the surprise response:
What causes
surprise?
Surprises actually cause humans to physically freeze for
1/25th of a second. Then they usually trigger something
in the brain that Luna calls “find” — a moment that
causes humans to generate extreme curiosity to figure
out what is happening.
https://www.revistaad.es/arte/articulos/20-mejores-obras-historia-arte-espanol/25058
My last birthday
March 10th
M. Alexandra
Toro S