Perspective
What is perspective?
allows us to experience an endless array of emotions
What is feelings?
The stage in life where your brain is the most vulnerable.
What is being a teenager?
Combination of characteristics or qualities that form an individual's distinctive character.
What is Personality?
Help others, do things you are good at, give yourself compliments.
What are ways to boost one's self-esteem.
Family structure, religious beliefs, financial stability
feeling or showing pleasure or contentment
What is Happy?
This part of the brain is called the master planner. It's ability to boss the brain increases with age.
What is prefrontal cortex?
A wildly held but fixed and oversimplified image or idea of a particular type of person or things
What is stereotype?
Something someone says to you or you say to yourself that is unkind and unnecessary.
What is a put-down?
Someone who approaches life and day to day events with a positive outlook.
What is an Optimist?
a startled response experienced as the result of an unexpected event
What is surprise?
Ms. Farley always says there are two different times in your life where you body and brain experience immense growth. What are the ages of these two stages?
What is between ages 2-4 and ages 12-14.
The period following the onset of puberty during which a young person develops from a child into an adult
What is adolescence?
A person whom one knows and with whom one has a bond of mutual affection. Someone you like to hang out with and they treat you well.
What is a friend?
Describe why your perspective of a movie or a book may be different then that of your classmates?
Student's own answer
feeling of revulsion or strong disapproval aroused by something unpleasant or offensive
What is disgust?
This part of the brain called the ventral striatum is more active in adolescents that in children or adults. What is this part of the brain referred to as?
What is the "reward center" of the brain?
Someone who is more comfortable focusing on their inner thoughts and ideas, rather than what's happening around them.
What is an introvert?
One way to boost one's self esteem is to do something- another way is to think about things differently. What are the two words Ms. Farley used to describe these two ways?
Action and Thought
What is an action step one can take to support their self esteem?
What is a thoughtful step one can take to support their self esteem?
How and Why would the perspective of an 8th grade student living in New York City be different from that of an 8th grade student living in Missoula, MT?
How - is
Why - is
an unpleasant emotion caused by the belief that someone or something is dangerous, likely to cause pain, or a threat
What is fear?
This brain region seems to be "shouting louder" between the ages of 13 and 17 than at any other time during human development.
What is the ventral striatum?
Why does your identity change as you get older?
Because you experience new things and you gain more knowledge as you get older. You learn more about yourself and what you like and do not like.