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Stress and Emotion Affect learning (Willis) (Strategies to reduce stress…
Stress and Emotion Affect learning (Willis)
Impact on state of the learner
Positive impact
State of comfort
Causes
comfort increases with
self-confidence, trust, positive feelings of teacher, support classroom and school.
Result
enhanced information transmission and storage in the brain
better learning, remembering, higher order thinking, writing, decision making, reading, creativity
Negative impact
State of anxiety
Causes
alienated from learning experience; anxious about learning
student could be confused, bored, uninterested
Result
Information does not reach memory
Evidence of
acting out, bored, low participation, shorter attention span,
Strategies to reduce stress and increase comfort
Minutes of fun activities between lessons
Relevant, motivating, interesting lesson
Reward with hands on activity
Personalize lesson information
Omit inherently stressful activities (standing in fron t of the class)
Teach to prioritize and cull information
chemical reactions
Stress
Trimethyltin into brain
Suppresses growth of dentrites and neuron maintenance
Short term stress
Impairs short term memory and work efficiency
Long term stress
Reduces longterm memory stroage and retrieval, motivation, creative problem solving
Joy, comfort
releases dopamine into brain
(Dopamine is a neurotransmitter, transmits signals between neurons)
Cortisone is released in both negative and positive emotions, in large or small amounts, repectively, and impedes or enhances learning.
The Amygdala--info passes from senses through amydala to memory processes
Stress overstimulates amygdala
sensory info cannot pass through overstimulated amygdala to memory and storage areas of brain
Stress disturbs learning circuits
Enthusiasm enhances amygdala functioning
Info has emotional meaning and passes into memory easier