Emotional Appeal

I feel like Emotional Appeal is a great topic to discuss further only because it happens all the time within people. Whether you are trying to sell a product or trying to create an invention, emotional appeal will always come into place. In order to make people attentive or intrigued, you need to catch their focus by using emotional appeal. For example, the soda “coca cola” has commercials of polar bears drinking coca cola, making it seem that it’s so refreshing and unique. I’m not going to lie, when I watch “coca cola” commercials, it makes me want to drink some because the commercials are so entertaining and different. Coca Cola is similar to a couple other drinks, but the commercials got me emotional which made me buy some. People are not interested in the inner workings of a product. They want to have a great experience using it; they don’t care how it works or how difficult it was to create it. 

Favorite thing about the class

My favorite thing about the class was the ability to manage your time for the posts and comments. Since I was really busy with school and work, this online class helped me because I did whenever I was free. Also, the class helped me become a tougher critique so that I make better decisions. The blogs and comments were convenient for me since I worked at night and had school all day; it gave me the chance to do it when I wanted to. The least favorite thing about this class were the group projects, because the reason why I chose this class was to do everything online since I was too busy to take the class on campus. It’s hard trying to meet up with group members when everyone has different schedules, plus people don’t respond or put an effort to help. It was just tough for me and I wasn’t expecting an online class to do that. All together, the class was awesome; maybe just give individual projects rather than a group. 

This semester

Throughout this course, I have learned a lot of different concepts and skills. Critical decision making is a great course to take because it makes you analyze information so that you make the right decision or action. When people look at a problem, most of the time they don’t go into depth and figure out what is right or wrong. They don’t analyze the information given which leads them to false accusations or wrong decisions. I have realized there a lot of different factors that lead people to their decision making. Emotion is a factor that makes most people base their decision. People’s experiences lead them to make future decisions based on what they think is right or wrong. Whenever a problem is given to me, I don’t usually make a quick decision. Now I analyze all the information, and make sure I have a full understand of the situation. Based off the information, I make rational decisions so that I used my best judgment.