Chapter 2 In Your Everyday Life
Answering these questions will help you make these concepts more personally meaningful, and therefore more memorable.
Can you think of a time when endorphins may have saved you or a friend from feeling intense pain? What happened?
Think back to a time when you felt your autonomic nervous system kick in. What was your body preparing you for?
Do you remember feeling the lingering effects of hormones after a really stressful event? How did it feel? How long did it last?
In what ways has learning about the physical brain influenced your thoughts about human nature?
If most information in the brain is processed outside of our awareness, how can we ever really know ourselves?
What important experiences have influenced your brain development? How do you imagine that your genes and your environment have interacted to make you different from other people?
Why do you think our brain evolved into so many interconnected structures with varying functions?
Can you think of a time when you focused your attention so completely on one thing that you did not notice something else? What happened?
Do you ever text, watch TV, or talk on the phone while studying? What impact do you think this multitasking has on your learning?
What have you learned about sleep that you could apply to yourself?
Which explanation for why we dream makes the most sense to you? How well does it explain your own dreams?
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