Adolescent Development and Mental Health Essentials
1) Adolescence: Key Changes
Adolescence is a transitional stage between childhood and maturity. Adolescents experience significant body changes, intellectual development, and emotional shifts. This includes developing cognitive abilities, abstract thinking, constructing personal identity, and exploring sexuality. Moral and ethical development also occurs, involving the acceptance of values and understanding of norms.
2) Social Skills Essentials
Social skills are behaviors manifested in our social interactions.
Read MoreKey Concepts in Instrumental Conditioning
Glossary of Instrumental Conditioning Terms
Drag Instinctive: Gradual deviation of instrumental behavior from required responses. It is influenced by species-specific responses or instinctive reactions to the enhancer and other experimental stimuli.
Punishment: Instrumental conditioning procedure with a positive contingency between the instrumental response and an aversive stimulus. If the response occurs, the aversive stimulus is received; if not, it is avoided.
Instrumental Behavior: Activity performed
Read MorePhilosophy of Mind and Death: A Comprehensive Analysis
The feeling is to detect anything through the senses, yet without having meaning, and uptake is merely a stimulus.
Perception is the processing of this sensory data to make sense; it is the recognition of a particular object that allows us to understand each other and perform actions.
The relationship between these two concepts has been studied from two theories:
- The relational theory: This theory posits that perception is nothing but a set of feelings and an element of partnership between them provided
Mental and Sexual Health
Mental and Sexual Health: A Comprehensive Guide
Mental Health
Mental health is the ability to adapt to and accept life situations in an acceptable manner. Some believe this definition aligns with the concept of intelligence. We can also define it as self-awareness, self-control, and personal responsibility for one’s actions. Realize that you are responsible for your actions and the consequences in your life.
Physical and Mental Wellbeing
Health is the harmony between what we want and what we have.
Read MoreHidden Curriculum in Physical Education: Gender Stereotypes and Equality
What is the Hidden Curriculum?
- It highlights major differences with the official curriculum.
Joint experiences unofficial, undeclared unintended (hidden). Expressed in the values, attitudes and beliefs (“pedagogy implicit”).
It differs from the official curriculum in which the latter is formalized, clear and explicit. It is a manifesto of objectives, evaluation criteria and content.
Hidden Curriculum Load in Physical Education
- Why do we say that the contents of our subject have much “load” of the hidden
Understanding Human Emotions and Feelings: A Psychological Perspective
Emotions and Feelings
Emotions and feelings are important in assessing and judging one’s emotional life. They are affective states produced by humans, belonging to the experiential-affective domain in their appearance and expression.
Emotions
Emotions begin to emerge from the 3rd quarter IUD. Excitement arises suddenly and abruptly. It is instinctive and innate, not learned. However, it is acquired through complex learning processes within a culture and the incorporation of personal experiences.
Emotion
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