Monday, February 28, 2011

Inside Teenage Brain Reflection

Learning about ideas behind the teenage brain was interesting to me...since I am a teenager. Some of the things came as surprises to me. I was very surprised by one experiment the psychologists/scientists did. They showed some facial expressions to adults and teenagers. Apparently the responses were different; teens thought the faces were angry when they weren't, they were really just shocked. This led the scientists to think teens see anger in places where it isn't. I related this to myself because I often feel people are mad at me when they aren't. This idea led me to some questions, like when do our brains maturate to see the actual expressions? Or what leads us to see anger in more places than it really is. Is it because of teenage angst, or is it a chemical change? Overall, I thought the videos were informative and interesting.

1 comment:

  1. As high school teachers, we ought to know more about the inner workings of the brains of our students.

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