Embarrassment And Brain Pruning

    One pivotal difference is what goes on in the brain during embarrassment and brain pruning and how they each occur. To begin with, embarrassment deals with hormones. These hormones that get released into the brain cause many imbalances and trigger embarrassment.  From passage 1, “Embarrassed? Blame Your Brain” by Jennifer Connor-Smith states,”This imbalance means even small problems, like tripping in the hallway, can trigger a wave of embarrassment”.    This shows that the disproportion of hormones in the brain cause

In 2011, Lamia stated that embarrassment often happened in the relation with other people around us and so it is a public emotion that give us the feeling of being exposed, awkward, and of course the tendency to fill ourselves with regret on the mistake we had made. Shiota and Kalat (2012) explained that the feeling of embarrass make us feel uncomfortable and uneasy as it mirrors our belief that saying we did something wrong and then it making us to have the tendency to hide or pull out ourselves in some way and situations. I could never look back on what I did and how stupid I am to enter the wrong toilet. I was so regret with everything I had done to put me into such situation.

The article ‘Embarrassment and Social Organisation’ was written for the American Journal of sociology in 1956, since then Goffman 's work on embarrassment has been the backbone of understanding the sociology of embarrassment, as well as understanding the structures that reinforce the embarrassment. Goffman suggests that embarrassment is a recognisable deviation from the ease that is considered natural during social interaction. Embarrassment can be recognised through signs of emotional disturbance, blushing fumbling stuttering or change in voice, blinking or other actions that can be considered improper given the social interaction. Goffman describes two types of embarrassment, sustained

They assessed the children and adolescents by using a questionnaire version of the Pubertal Development Scale where it rates child development by five physical attributes of the girls; growth spurt, bodily hair, skin changes, development of breasts, and menstruation. From there they rate 4 of the 5 attributes on a 1-4 scale with 1 being not started yet, and 4 being seems complete. Next they rated the anxiety of the participants using a Multidimensional Anxiety Scale For Children, a questionnaire that assesses symptoms of anxiety over a week long report. For the procedure the participants were subjected to a face-matching task of emotions, but responses to neutral and fearful faces were recorded. The results of their study showed that amygdala responses towards neutral and fearful faces both showed an increase in amygdala activation. The right amygdala being activated was shown more in girls who were less developed during puberty invoking an anxious response. Since the amygdala is not as mature or developed, social anxiety symptoms are less consistent in children and adolescents as compared to adults (Ferri et. al, 2014).

The strategy and focus on our session was to seek and address the anxiety involved with mixing with new people and the anxiety of expressing your feelings to others. Teaching them to express

This video is about The Behaving Brain; it explains how the brain and amnesia work. According to the video, neurons duties are to receive information from other cells, process this information, and transmitting it to the rest of the body. This is done by traveling through dendrites, to the soma, to the axon, to the terminal buttons. Constant nerve flow helps regulate our metabolism, temperature, and respiration. It also enables learning and the ability to comprehend. The brain is connected to the brain stem, which is connected to the cerebellum, which is connected to the limbic system. The limbic system is made up of the amygdala, hippocampus, hypothalamus, and thalamus. The cerebrum is the largest part of the brain, where things are

While on patrol, I was parked in the entrance to Mansard's plaza, facing E Ridge Rd, monitoring traffic. A female in a silver pickup truck pulled into the lot and flagged me down. The female pointed towards a white and maroon Corvette traveling east on Ridge Rd and stated that she believes the driver may be intoxicated. I immediately pulled onto Ridge Rd and got behind the Corvette. As I was following the Corvette east on Ridge, another vehicle with a male driver pulled up to the side of me and shouted out the window, "That guy is drunk". I then observed the Corvette to weave from the outside lane to the center lane, without signaling. The vehicle then abruptly swerved back into the outside lane, without signaling. The vehicle then came to

Embarrassment can be one of the hardest pills to swallow; I know this because of firsthand experience. As humans we go through humiliation all the way through life. I do not know a single person who went through life without a moment of discomfiture, if someone has then they must not live a very audacious life. My personal experience was not only utterly embarrassing but also broadcasted on national television. I was competing in the National Little Britches Rodeo Association Finals at the Colorado State Fairgrounds in Pueblo, Colorado. I have never been one to mull over a certain moment but incidents like this tend to stick with you. What I learned from this experience, I will never forget.

Embarrassment is a human reaction that everyone experiences. The decisions that are being made in life are purely based off of the judgements of others and how they affect a person's image. These choices become completely misguided by a lack of morals and become improper. This does not solely apply to people in general, but corporations, companies, and large groups of people. The government attempts to use a good image in order to demand respect from its followers and from other countries. This image causes the government to make decisions that under normal circumstances would not be acceptable. In Johnny Got His Gun, Dalton Trumbo uses anaphora to convey how an inability to compromise leads to audacious conduct that would exceed tolerable

Having fear of people knowing that, yourself has commit an action that wasn’t really polite or in a religious point of view “sinned” … automatically makes our inner conscience embarrassed. From personal experience it also makes one want to hide in shame. I recall when I was younger, agitating the teacher with missing assignments. So unfortunately I was going to walk into a speech from my mom when I arrive home about what happened earlier. She would advise to my aunties and uncles over the phone on how my behavior was school. I felt ashamed knowing the fact that my family members would judge me in a negative perspective by the actions I performed in school. Noticing them at family events made me abashed, so I hid away. I sense that’s why

I agree with Fran Liebowitz. Embarrassment is a powerful human emotion. Without embarrassment, people would live their life, going around doing stupid stuff and not really having any thought on how the stuff their doing is out of line. Bryan Stevenson brings up this point when he mentions “…no accountability” on page 114. Embarrassment, along with good conscious and good morals, is how people hold themselves accountable for their actions. Without embarrassment, there really is not any accountability.

In the psychopathologies mentioned above, one thing is common – the emotional brain overpowering the thinking brain. Therefore, in dealing with these psychopathologies, the main goal is to somehow wake the thinking brain up so that it could fire the needed neurons to finally control the emotional brain. It can be as simple as trying to talk some sense into the person. This is because when a person is listening, it is the neocortex that is being used and will therefore fire up more neurons. Just like the child who is throwing a random tantrum, instead of giving him or her at once the thing that he or she wants, tell the child to calm down, tell him or her that he or she does not need to cry or shout or to even hurt people in order to get what

Because self-esteem is influenced by so many different things (e.g. society, media, friends, etc…) it is very important that parents and caretakers take the proper steps in helping a child develop a strong sense of who they are (Nuttall, 1991). By the time a child reaches three years of age they have experienced a very wide range of emotions (Cluff, N.D.) Parents, teachers and caregivers will lay the foundation upon which a child emotionally develops (Cluff, N.D.). Positive emotional development is important for children because this will not only determine their ability to develop healthy relationships with their peers but also how to successfully deal with their own emotions (Cluff, N.D.). Many theorists agree that there is a connection between a child’s emotional levels and development; they also

Maturation is especially important for individuals as it provides several competitive evolutionary advantages (Locke & Bogin, 2006). Through this process, individuals develop and acquire control over their emotions and behaviours. This ability to monitor and adapt our emotions, cognition and behaviours in accordance to the social and intellectual demands of particular contexts is often referred to as self-regulation (Demetriou, 2000; Zimmerman, 2000). Various complex cognitive skills are required for self-regulation. These skills encompass the constant observation of our thoughts and behaviours, knowledge of the demands of any situation, the capability to alter conditions of our current behaviour as required to achieve a goal or suit a situation and attention to how favourably the demands of a context are met (Evans & Rosenbaum, 2008).

Threats to public identity or a perceived negative reaction of other's often leads to blushing (3). Indeed, many people cited situations in which they have been caught or doing something of which they are ashamed as leading to blushing (3). This is consistent with blushing as an appeasement behavior. The person caught doing something that they perceive to be "shameful" or "improper" would feel the need to signal to the rest of their group that they recognize their transgression. That they reject their actions because they share the values of the groups other members and therefore that the group should accept them despite their mistake (1). Babies, for example, who have no sense of social norms or how they are perceived by others, do not blush at all (2). Blushing increases, though, when strangers witness something that an individual views as unflattering or which puts them in a negative light. For example, when three people together watched a video of one of