Mental, Emotional, Social, and Physical Health
Learning Objective
I can analyze the interrelationship between mental, emotional, social, and physical health.
Lesson Flow
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Guided Notes
Key concepts students will learn:
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The amygdala acts as an emotional alarm system, while the prefrontal cortex helps to tame emotional responses by evaluating situations.
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The hippocampus is involved in encoding and consolidating emotional memories, linking emotions to the context in which they occur.
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Early trauma and stress can lead to an overactive and oversensitive amygdala, which can override the hippocampus and prefrontal cortex, leading to emotion-based reactions.
Practice
12 questions • Multiple choice & Short answer
Exit Ticket
“Explain how the amygdala, hippocampus, and prefrontal cortex work together to process emotions, and what happens when this system is disrupted by early trauma or chronic stress.”
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