Emotions Before Thought

After my epiphany while watching The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, I decided to start my studies on how the brain is as a newborn, when the brain is the most uninfluenced. These were my findings.

The frontal lobe is the part of the brain that deals with thought and voluntary behavior. As a newborn, they understand emotions faster than words. So if a baby were to do something a parent wouldn't approve of and be chastised, the baby would pick up on the negative tone of the correction rather than the actual words they would say. This ties back to my social acceptance theory. We as humans pick up the vibe that others emit before we think about the actual words that were said to us. Because of our desire to belong, we naturally react to get the good feeling from others that we want rather than thinking for ourselves.

To further my studies, I will continue my research on when and why we begin to question things. Learning about the brain and connecting it to our lives gives so much insight as to why things happen, and I really enjoy doing my studies.

Until Next Week,
Factual Faith

We Are Taught Everything

While watching The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, I was thinking about how wrong it was to treat any human being in such a way, as anyone in this modern day would. Then this thought occurred to me: it is only wrong to me because I was taught that it was wrong.

Now in school students are taught that the Holocaust was a horrific event in time and people should never be treated so poorly, to say the least. But it was quite the opposite during World War II. This is shown during the movie when Gretel, a 12 year old daughter of a Nazi soldier, was given a tutor. This tutor taught her that Jewish people are "evil, dangerous vermin," and people are fighting in this war to take them out and make the world a better place. She then replaces the dolls in her room with pro-Nazi soldier posters and begins to educate herself about the war. Her eight year old brother, Bruno, has not been taught to develop this notion yet, seeing nothing wrong with the Jews. He only sees them as farmers in striped pajamas, and he even befriends one in a concentration camp. The question is: why are we taught to develop such notions?

It all comes down to a point of social acceptance. It wouldn't be socially acceptable for me to glamorize the Holocaust, nor would it be acceptable for someone living then to speak out against the killing of the Jews. Most have a desire to fit in, so most conform to the "normal" standard of living. It is only when a group of people who decide to create a new normal that society changes what is acceptable.

This is only a theory, however. It has shown me where to start my studies of the human brain and how it affects our everyday lives, and I'm exited for where it will take me.

Until Next Week,
Factual Faith

New Adventures

This is a blog for my English I class. We are currently doing a project called Genius Hour where we get to study whatever our hearts desire. I am studying the human brain and how it affects our every day lives, and I will update my findings weekly. Should be fun!

Factual Faith