The document discusses emotions and the brain. It states that emotions are intense mental states that arise in the nervous system and elicit positive or negative responses. Emotions are related to behaviors that have survival value, like fear motivating flight or anger motivating fighting. The limbic system is a key area of the brain that deals with showing, recognizing, and controlling bodily reactions to emotions. Even isolated people use universal facial expressions to communicate emotions.
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The document discusses emotions and the brain. It states that emotions are intense mental states that arise in the nervous system and elicit positive or negative responses. Emotions are related to behaviors that have survival value, like fear motivating flight or anger motivating fighting. The limbic system is a key area of the brain that deals with showing, recognizing, and controlling bodily reactions to emotions. Even isolated people use universal facial expressions to communicate emotions.
The document discusses emotions and the brain. It states that emotions are intense mental states that arise in the nervous system and elicit positive or negative responses. Emotions are related to behaviors that have survival value, like fear motivating flight or anger motivating fighting. The limbic system is a key area of the brain that deals with showing, recognizing, and controlling bodily reactions to emotions. Even isolated people use universal facial expressions to communicate emotions.
Student’s Name: _________________________________ DATE: June 11th ,2016
How are you feeling today?
FUN ENGLISH PROGRAM BRITISH Emotions and your brain Emotion is an intense mental state that arises in the nervous system and evokes either a positive or negative psychological response. Emotions are related to behavior with survival value (e.g. fear motivates flight, anger motivates fighting). They enable us to react to situations and influence our behavior -For example, anger or fear will set your heart racing, and feeling happy will make you smile. The body frequently responds to sadness by a feeling of tightness in the throat. Pain is best relieved by the well-known (and sometimes automatic) processes of crying, laughing, sweating, and trembling. Extreme emotions can cause problems. Sadness can become depression, anger can become aggression, and pleasure can lead to addiction. Feeling afraid in a dangerous situation is natural and useful. But being scared when there doesn't seem to be a clear reason, is anxiety. When remembering an emotional event, you recall not only what happened, but also how you felt. Scientists think that we store early emotional memories, even if we cannot remember what actually happened. These memories can last a very long time and may still affect us as adults. One of the key areas of your brain that deals with showing, recognizing and controlling the body's reactions to emotions is known as the limbic system. But are emotions and feelings just learnt as we grow up, surrounded by pictures, photographs and television? 4 Apparently not: even people who live in isolated parts of the world use these same facial expressions to communicate their emotions. They are considered to be universal in all human beings.
Activity 1: Say if the following statements are true or false and correct the false ones.
1. Emotions are only positive.
_____________________________________________________________ 2. Emotions have a link with man’s survival instinct. _____________________________________________________________ 3. Emotional memories disappear quickly. _____________________________________________________________ 4. Emotions have an impact on our behaviour. _____________________________________________________________ FUN ENGLISH PROGRAM BRITISH
5. When you are scared, your heart beats less quickly.
a. Happy c. Sad FUN ENGLISH PROGRAM BRITISH b. Angry d. Scared FUN ENGLISH PROGRAM BRITISH
Homework: Draw a line from the words to the picture to label it. BODY PARTS
Where does it go? How many of each body part do we have?
Write the words in the correct group. FUN ENGLISH PROGRAM BRITISH Go to: http://learnenglishteens.britishcouncil.org/grammar-vocabulary/vocabulary-exercises/body-parts