PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT - Prefinal

• Mental health - includes our emotional, psychological and social well-being. It affects how we think, feel and act as we cope with life.
• Subjective well-being

  • one's personal thoughts and feelings about one's overall state of being
• Perceived Self-efficacy

  • perception of one's value or worth, effectiveness, and ability in performing a task or activity
• Low self-esteem - produces thoughts and emotions such as anger or hopelessness
• Autonomy

  • one's capacity to separate one's identity from other significant persons, like parents, lovers, and special friends
• Competence

  • related to self-esteem and self-identity
  • perception of one's capacity to effectively perform a function or activity using specific skills and knowledge and achieving desired result at a given time
• Responsibility - a majaor underlying factor for competence
• Intergenerational Independence

  • the relationship between individuals who belong to different, autonomous persons during a specific period of time.
• Self actualization

  • Capacity to fulfill our psychological potential
  • Based on Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs
• self actualization - fulfilling one's perceived potentials
• Corey Keyes

  • American sociologist and psychologist
  • Known as the pioneer for positive psychology
  • Created the mental health continuum which consists of 4 quadrants
  • coining the psychological term "flourishing"
• 5 support for mental health and well-being

  1. connect
  2. be active
  3. keep learning
  4. give to others
  5. take notice
• The World Health Organization (WHO) enumerated the following six factors or aspects of mental health and well-being.
• self-concept or self-identity is an important foundation in developing good mental health and well-being.
• Coping, resiliency, and adaptability are important skills in developing mental health.
• Learning

  • permanent change brought by experiences
  • any changes brought by maturity is not learning
• Experiences events and activities in your life that you have encountered
• 3 parts of the brain

  1. Brainstem
  2. Cerebellum
  3. Cerebrum
• Brainstem

  • connects the spinal cord and the brain. 
  • it controls the functions that help people alive such as breathing
• Cerebellum

  • controls voluntary movements such as lifting your fork and waving your hand
• Cerebrum

  • largest part of the human brain.
  • Involved in intellectual functions such as memory, attention, awareness, thought, language, and reasoning
• Frontal Lobe 

  • Controls cognitive skills in humans such as emotional expression, problem solving, memory, language, judgement, and sexual behaviors.
  • “Control Panel” of our personality and our ability to communicate
  • Phineas Gage - most famous patients in neuroscience.his frontal lobe was destroyed because of iron rod
• Parietal Lobe

  • Located upper back area in the skull, processes sensory information, receives from the outside world, relating to touch, taste, and temperature
• Temporal Lobe

  • Lower lobe of the cortex sitting close to ear level within the skull
  • Largely responsible for creating and preserving both conscious and long-term memory
  • Associated with auditory information
• Occipital Lobe

  • Processing integration and interpretation of vision
• Roger W. Sperry

  • Theorized the Split Brain Theory
  • The brain has two hemispheres
  • Left brain hemisphere is the analytical and rational thinking resides while the right brain hemisphere represented the creative and synthesizing part
• Ned Hermann

  • Theorized that there are four parts of the brain
  • Overview of different thinking styles
  • HBDI has 120 questions that will make up you HBDI profile
• Nedd Hermann's Whole Brain Theory

  1. Analytical Thinking
  2. Practical and Structured Thinking
  3. Relational Thinking
  4. Experimental and Creative Thinking
• Analytical Thinking - preference for analytical thinking and excel at solving mathematical, numerical, and technical problems in logical way
• Practical and Structured Thinking - organizational talents, who work in controlled, planned manner. Search for solutions to problems step-by-step
• Relational Thinking - a person can communicate, reason, and convince others. Find interpersonal contact very important and have sensitive attitude very empathetic and listen to the ideas and opinions of others
• Experimental and Creative Thinking  - imaginative and artistic people who have a conceptual brain. Visual, holistic, intuitive, and innovative approach and are happy to take the initiative
• Mind Mapping

  • Helps you to make thinking visible
  • Tony Buzan - british psychologist and author known for his mind mapping technique that helps you improve your memorization
• 2 Types of Amnesia

  1. Retrograde Amnesia
  2. Anterograde Amnesia
• Amnesia loss of memory not accompanied by other mental difficulties caused by brain injury or trauma
• Retrograde Amnesia - impaired ability to recall past events, can’t remember anything before the injury
• Anterograde Amnesia - loss of memory occurring after the injury, damaged hippocampus
• Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) - causes hyperactivity, impulsive behavior and attention problems
• Ritalin - central nervous system (CNS) stimulan prescription medicine, used to treat ADHD
• Autism - pervasive developmental disorders in the brain