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Emotions and the Brain

Emotions and the Brain
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Failure: Seeds of Innovation | TryEngineering Lesson Focus Lesson focuses on how failure is part of the engineering process. Students work in teams and learn about many inventions and advances in engineering were brought about after a mistake or failure. Age Levels: Objectives Learn how engineering can help solve society's challenges.Learn about teamwork.Learn about problem solving. Anticipated Learner Outcomes As a result of this activity, students should develop an understanding of:innovationengineeringteamwork Lesson Activities Students explore how mistakes and failures are a part of engineering and explore many examples of how engineers and others created materials, products, and processes after facing a failure or mistake. Teacher Resource Documents (attached)Student Resource Sheet (attached)Student Worksheet (attached) Alignment to Curriculum Frameworks Curriculum alignment sheet is included in PDF.

Like it Or Not, Emotions Will Drive the Decisions You Make Today Your emotions will drive the decisions you make today, and your success may depend upon your ability to understand and interpret them. When an emotion is triggered in your brain, your nervous systems responds by creating feelings in your body (what many people refer to as a "gut feeling") and certain thoughts in your mind. A great deal of your decisions are informed by your emotional responses because that is what emotions are designed to do: to appraise and summarize an experience and inform your actions. Emotions are not particularly sophisticated or precise, but their speed and utility make up for what they lack in sophistication and precision. You may think that the best course of action is to suppress or ignore an intense emotion rather than figure it out. Emotions are behind many complex dynamics in business and personal relationships. Emotions have tremendous action potential. Your emotional system can give you an advantage in decision making if you make proper use of it.

¿Qué es Afectividad? » Su Definición y Significado [2020] La afectividad es aquella capacidad que tiene el individuo para reaccionar ante ciertos estímulos ya sean del medio interno o externos y que se caractericen por los sentimientos y emociones. La afectividad en el ámbito psicológico es un lenguaje menos formal, inclinándose a lo coloquial, teniendo en cuenta que son aquellas muestras de amor que una persona le brinda a otra u otras incluyendo a otras especies como los animales. De igual manera la filosofía también ha estudiado el comportamiento del ser humano de sus inicios y emociones. La ciencia a través de los años ha hecho grandes aportes con respecto a este tema y ha encontrado que el cerebro juega un papel muy importante es las emociones de las personas y los efectos que puedan causar en ellas. Aunque es imposible de controlar, lo que sí se puede manejar es la forma de promover los afectos, siendo las decisiones que se tomen de gran importancia en la vida de cada individuo, generando un sentimiento de bienestar.

Building Brain Literacy in Elementary Students Practice Makes Perfect For many students, the brain isn't a hot topic of conversation. This is especially true for younger students who are still trying to understand the world around them, and are still far from developing physiological self-awareness of the very thing that gives them that self-awareness. But helping students develop "brain literacy" doesn't have to be a matter of dry science pumped full of confusing jargon. Understanding the brain can be empowering for students as they recognize their ability to strengthen it each time they use it. To reduce anxiety about new "stuff" in the classroom -- whether related to Common Core State Standards, struggles with reading, or something else entirely -- you can find opportunities to emphasize students' ability to literally build the brains they want. Much of this kind of thinking starts with an awareness of the brain itself, and how it functions. Helping Students Understand Their Brains Building Student "Brain Literacy"

Inspire Her Mind Science There’s a young 4-year old girl shuffling through a chest full of various dress-up clothes. The copy asks: Does dress-up determine her future? Scroll to the left, and the girl picks up a princess dress from the chest. Scroll to the right, and the girl picks an astronaut suit out of the chest. Technology There’s a father and daughter working on an electronic helicopter. Scroll to the left, and the father takes a soldering iron and starts working on the helicopter while the daughter watches. Scroll to the right, and the daughter reaches forward to connect a wire on the helicopter, making it work, as the rotor blades twirl. Engineering An 8-year-old girl sits on a deck and looks at some playhouse toys, such as a pink couch, and a pile of wood. Scroll to the left, and the girl picks up the pink couch and walks over to a dollhouse. Scroll to the right, and the girl picks up a piece of wood and walks over to a small wooden dollhouse she has been building. Math

Emotional Wiring Different in Men and Women Men and women are actually from the same planet, but scientists now have the first strong evidence that the emotional wiring of the sexes is fundamentally different. An almond-shaped cluster of neurons that processes experiences such as fear and aggression hooks up to contrasting brain functions in men and women at rest, the new research shows. For men, the cluster "talks with" brain regions that help them respond to sensors for what's going on outside the body, such as the visual cortex and an area that coordinates motor actions. For women, the cluster communicates with brain regions that help them respond to sensors inside the body, such as the insular cortex and hypothalamus. These areas tune in to and regulate women's hormones, heart rate, blood pressure, digestion and respiration. Cahill and his co-author Lisa Kilpatrick, scanned the brains of 36 healthy men and 36 healthy women. Scientists still have to find out if one's sex also affects the wiring of other regions of the brain.

¿Cómo influyen las emociones en la toma de decisiones? - Esclerosis múltiple: información y tratamiento ¿Cuántas veces te has arrepentido de tomar una decisión en un determinado estado emocional? Probablemente te hayas dado cuenta de que eres más propenso a correr riesgos cuando te sientes feliz, mientras que la tristeza te provoca el efecto contrario. Tomar decisiones cuando estamos enfadados no suele dar buenos resultados, ni tampoco si la decisión se toma en un estado de euforia. ¿Alguna vez te has dejado llevar por la primera impresión para decidir?, ¿eres consciente de hasta qué punto tus emociones son manipulables para ayudarte a tomar decisiones? “El gran valor de saber cómo entregarnos es que todos y cada uno de los sentimientos se pueden dejar en cualquier momento y en cualquier lugar en un instante y pude hacerse continuamente y sin esfuerzo” – David R Hawkins El afecto heurístico es un atajo mental que permite a las personas tomar decisiones y resolver problemas de forma rápida y eficiente. Los seres humanos estamos lejos de ser la máquina racional que algunos aspiran a ser.

Martin Seligman: The new era of positive psychology When I was president of the American Psychological Association,they tried to media-train me,and an encounter I had with CNNsummarizes what I'm going to be talking about today,which is the eleventh reason to be optimistic.The editor of Discover told us 10 of them,I'm going to give you the eleventh. So they came to me -- CNN -- and they said, "Professor Seligman,would you tell us about the state of psychology today?We'd like to interview you about that." (Laughter) And cameras rolled, and she said, "Professor Seligman,what is the state of psychology today?"" "Cut. "Look, Doctor Seligman,we can see you're really not comfortable in this medium.We'd better give you a real sound bite.This time you can have three words.Professor Seligman, what is the state of psychology today?"" So, why was psychology good? And the conclusion of that is that psychology and psychiatry, over the last 60 years,can actually claim that we can make miserable people less miserable.And I think that's terrific.

What Do Emotions Have to Do with Learning? Thinkstock When parents and teachers consider how children learn, it’s usually the intellectual aspects of the activity they have in mind. Sidney D’Mello would like to change that. The University of Notre Dame psychologist has been studying the role of feelings in learning for close to a decade, and he has concluded that complex learning is almost inevitably “an emotionally charged experience,” as he wrote in a paper published in the journal Learning and Instruction earlier this year. During the learning experiments described in his paper, he notes, the participating students reported being in a neutral state only about a quarter of the time. Another counter-intuitive contention made by D’Mello is that even negative emotions can play a productive role in learning. Confusion motivates us to restore our equilibrium through thought, reflection, and problem solving, and deeper learning is the result. animated agents discussing scientific case studies. Related

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