Book response #4

Previously on The Kenneth Brown Blog blog post: 

Emotional intelligence examined the amygdala and how it relates to your brain. 

Today, the book addressed what physically happens to your body when different emotions pass through your brain. This explained differences between our logical and emotional minds. 

"Jupiter has bestowed far more passion than reason- you could calculate the ratio as 24-1". This quote from Erasmus of Rotterdam is interesting because it sums up what this whole section is about and gives a great illustration of the idea. 

Many time in my life I have seen the "24-1" ratio in play. When emotions are high, logic goes down the drain. 

In just the last few pages I have read, I have learned more about emotions and the brain than I have in any formal education. For example, when you are in fear, blood rushes to your legs to make it easier to flee. Also, love has the  exact opposite effect of "flight of fight" in your body. 

Book Response #3

Once again I fail to meet what I said I would do. I started reading this book titled: Emotional Intelligence. It is indeed another psychology book, but a little more interesting than the complicated "Travels into Neuropsychology" book and just reading the psychology book(which I am still doing).
   Today my book focused on explaining the "amygdala"(a part of the brain that controls your emotions). In the passage I read it gave examples of how that part of your brain effects us in our everyday lives. 

"life is a comedy for those who think and a Trajedy for those who feel". This is an interesting quote because this really does relate to me. I am a person who "feels" so when I read that I was like "damn, my life is a Trajedy".  

The amygdala is really one of the most fascinating parts of the brain. If  an very unlikely to forget or lose this perspective.  

The brains connection to the amygdala causing you to almost always act on emotion in immediate response situations, then later once the signals are sent to your that amusing you act logically. 

The picture below shows a boy who acted solely based on his amygdala when discovering he left his phone in his car at school. 

Book response #2

I apologize to all those who were so ecstatic to see a continuation post on the previous book I was reading "into the silent land: travels in neuropsychology". Upon reading the book I came to realize that, in order to understand in depth what the book says, I would have to learn more on psychology. So in response to that I decided to grab my fathers college psychology book and start learning.
And to those of you who are reading this and didn't read my previous post... WELCOME, you are about to reading a boring to you, fun to me, post on the first chapter have studied in the psychology book.
 Psychology is defined as "scientific study of behavior and mental process". WHOO HOO I don't know if that excites you like it does me, but even the definition of psychology makes me happy.
psychology has four primary goals that it tries to answer.
"1. description. what is happening?
2. explanation. why is it happening?
3. prediction. when will it happen again?
4. control. How can it be changed?"
These four primary goals really display how psychology is looked at, and differentiates itself from any other type of science.
In the first chapter there are multiple studies done to prove basic psychology. two of these studies really stand out and actually make me laugh.
one is called " Little Albert" in which(in sum) a bunch of scientists instill fear in a baby. what they did is, they got a baby and a fuzzy white rat, and every time the baby would see the rat the scientists would make insanely loud noises to frighten the baby, to see if "conditioning" is possible. conditioning is "a reflex. could be formed or conditioned to respond to a new and formally unrelated stimuli". the results of the experiment were positive, in that you can condition your brain, or a brain to like/ dislike things.

 if you are interested in watching a 6 minute video on the study here is the link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hBfnXACsOI hope you enjoy!
on my next blog post I will be writing on one of two things... a book entitled "Raising Cain"(is Ms. James ever brings me the book) or chapter 2 in my psychology book. well thank you all for your time. love you all and God Bless!