Abstract
After watching each TED Talk, from a list of 5 videos, and reading an article from Psychology Today, the document offers a summary and a brief analysis that integrates the science behind.
Here is the list:
TED, How childhood trauma affects health across a lifetime - Nadine Burke Harris (2014);
TED, The linguistic genius of babies - Patricia Kuhl (2010);
TED, What makes a good life? Lessons from the longest study on happiness - Robert Waldinger (2015);
TED, The mysterious working of the adolescent brain - Sarah-Jayne Blakemore (2012);
TED, The power of believing that you can improve - Carol Dweck (2014);
Psychology Today, This Is Your Child's Brain on Video Games - Victoria L. Dunckley (2016).
Extract
[...] Lessons from the longest study on happiness - Robert Waldinger (2015); The mysterious working of the adolescent brain - Sarah-Jayne Blakemore (2012); The power of believing that you can improve - Carol Dweck (2014); Psychology Today, This Is Your Child's Brain on Video Games - Victoria L. Dunckley (2016) I. Summary and Analysis on "How childhood trauma affects health across a lifetime" with Nadine Burke Harris, https://www.ted.com/talks/nadine_burke_harris_how_childhood_trauma_affects_health_across_a_lifetime Nadine Burke Harris, which is a pediatrician, started to notice that a lot of children she received in her cabinet had the same kind of problematics, such as diverse forms of abuses and neglection, that led to high level of stress in these children. [...]
[...] al, 2023). To conclude, helping children developing a growth mindset can lead them to enjoy the learning process and maybe increase their well-being. Barroso, C., Ganley, C. M., Schoen, R. C., & Schatschneider, C. (2023). Between a growth and a fixed mindset: Examining nuances in 3rd-grade students' mathematics intelligence mindsets. Contemporary educational psychology 102179. King, R. B. (2017). A Fixed Mindset Leads to Negative Affect: The Relations Between Implicit Theories of Intelligence and Subjective Well-Being. Zeitschrift für Psychologie, 225(2), 137-145. [...]
[...] Summary and Analysis on "This Is Your Child's Brain on Video Games" with Victoria L. Dunckley, https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/mental-wealth/201609/is-your-childs-brain-video-games Victoria L. Dunckley, which is an psychiatrist, showed interest in how children can be influenced by repeated use of video games in a young age. She illustrates the different processes that tend to happen in a child's body when he plays video games. First, she describes how stimulating the game is, solicitating his nerves. She perceives how a child's mind cannot make the difference between a game and the real game, which is a huge problem because he will act like he's in the video game at this point. [...]
[...] Summary and Analysis on "The linguistic genius of babies" with Patricia Kuhl, https://www.ted.com/talks/patricia_kuhl_the_linguistic_genius_of_babies Patricia Kuhl, a researcher specialized in babies' language, wanted to understand how babies learned and recognized various languages. She found that our ability to learn several languages decreases with time. When it comes to learn a new language, we are the more able to do so when we are babies. That's because, in our brain development, we progressively tend to integrate our culture's tongue. That said, how do we learn it so fast? [...]
[...] As an example, a study suggests that adolescent may be more sensitive to stress than adults are and that the negative effects of stress would last longer in adolescents than in adults (Romeo, 2013), which means being mocked and ostracized by society doesn't help them at all. Furthermore, another study suggests that positive experiences lead to better brain development in adolescents while the contrary was observed for negative experiences. So, many adolescents would benefit having gratifying social experiences as it would lead them to grow more and help them not to be afraid of discovering the world they're living in. [...]
