Task 2


Let's talk about doing scary things....have you done something scary? 

In the following video there is an explanation about why people like to do scary things. Watch the video: 

http://ed.ted.com/lessons/why-do-we-like-to-scare-ourselves-margee-kerr#watch

Then go to the part that says "Think" and answer the comprehension questions about the video. 

When you finish in a short paragraph answer the following question: 


People across the globe enjoy engaging in thrilling and scary activities. How do you think culture influences engagement with thrills and chills?

Post your answers as a comment below. 



14 comentarios:

  1. Eduardo Arcia

    How do you think culture influences engagement with thrills and chills?

    I think that culture influences engagement with thrills and chills because people who had been in a scary situation will be stronger than weak people.

    People who had been in a figth or scary situation learn how to avoid the danger or how to use arguments or instruments to figth. This kind of people are survivor and the theory about the more strong people is true. There will be a new kind of people, smart, strong and prepared to fight.

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  2. Eduardo Arcia

    Task 2

    THINK

    ANSWERS

    Our automatic nervous system is responsible for activating the fight or flight response.

    a) True.

    During fight or flight, our body prioritizes all the following types of brain and body functioning except for:

    c) Critical or cognitive functioning.

    The fight or flight response is similar to what other arousal states (select all that
    apply).
    d) All of the above.

    The threat response (fight or flight) is universal, but how individuals experience and interpret the response can very from person to person.

    a) True.


    What are the psychological benefits of voluntarily engaging with scary situations?
    d) All of the above.


    We tend to easily forget scary experiences.

    b) False.

    Individuals can experience the same situation very differently with some leaving with positive feelings, and others feeling negatively. What are some of the suggested causes for the difference in how people experience frightening things?

    The difference is that some people release into their brains chemicals that prepare to scary situations, while others do not. Some enjoy the fear and not others.


    What does it mean to say that emotions can be contagious? What are the mechanisms by which emotions are contagious (e.g., why are they contagious?)

    Because when somebody see a friend in a scary situation, they fell the same sensation and their brains are releasing chemicals in the same way.

    Why have humans evolved to experience fear in the manner that we do? What have been, and are, the benefits to our survival?

    Because people who had been envolved in a experience of fear, learn how to face new experiences. This kind of people had learned how to fight and how to manage the dangerous situation. They are stronger and smarter now.


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  3. Hello everyone:
    1. Our automatic nervous system is responsible for activating the fight or flight.
    R/ False

    2. During fight or flight, our body prioritizes ALL the following types of brain and body functioning except for:
    R/ Critical or cognitive functioning

    3. The fight or flight response is similar to what other arousal states (select all that apply):
    R/ Sexual arousal

    4. The threat response (fight or flight) is universal, but how individuals experience and interpret the response can vary from person to person:
    R/ True

    5. What are the psychological benefits of voluntarily engaging with scary situations?
    R/ All of the above

    6. We tend to easily forget scary experiences.
    A/True

    People across the globe enjoy engaging in thrilling and scary activities. How do you think culture influences engagement with thrills and chills?

    In general, the towns have their own stories of scary, which roots are in the culture. This concept includes believes, habits and traditional activities of people, that it can be different in others countries. For example, the Cadejos and the Llorona in Costa Rica. These urban legends are related with fears or tales of the past time.

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  4. Task 2
    Why is being scared so fun? - Margee Kerr
    http://ed.ted.com/lessons/why-do-we-like-to-scare-ourselves-margee-kerr

    1. Our automatic nervous system is responsible for activating the fight or flight response.
    True

    2. During fight or flight, our body prioritizes ALL the following types of brain and body functioning except for:
    CCritical or cognitive functioning

    3. The fight or flight response is similar to what other arousal states (select all that apply):
    DAll of the above

    4. The threat response (fight or flight) is universal, but how individuals experience and interpret the response can very from person to person.
    True

    5. What are the psychological benefits of voluntarily engaging with scary situations?

    DAll of the above



    6. We tend to easily forget scary experiences.
    BFalse

    7. Individuals can experience the same situation very differently with some leaving with positive feelings, and others feeling negatively. What are some of the suggested causes for the difference in how people experience frightening things?

    Researches shows difference between individuals in how the chemicals associated with the threat response work.

    8. What does it mean to say that emotions can be contagious? What are the mechanisms by which emotions are contagious (e.g., why are they contagious?)?

    When you see a friend scream or laugh, you can feel compelled to do the same, because you make sense of their feelings and recreate the experience. This happen because there are a parts of the brain which are actives when you looks your friend screaming.
    9. Why have humans evolved to experience fear in the manner that we do? What have been, and are, the benefits to our survival?

    Humans need to know when to be afraid is better than to be brave for survival.


    People across the globe enjoy engaging in thrilling and scary activities. How do you think culture influences engagement with thrills and chills?

    I think there are some cultural aspects which can influence: religious beliefs, the frequency people see horror movies, each culture´s legends and myths, etc.


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  5. 1- Our automatic nervous system is responsible for activating the fight or flight response:

    true

    2- During fight or flight, our body prioritizes ALL the following types of brain and body functioning except for:

    Critical or cognitive functioning

    3- The fight or flight response is similar to what other arousal states (select all that apply):

    All of the above

    4- The threat response (fight or flight) is universal, but how individuals experience and interpret the response can very from person to person

    True

    5- What are the psychological benefits of voluntarily engaging with scary situations:

    all of the above

    6- We tend to easily forget scary experiences.

    False

    7- Individuals can experience the same situation very differently with some leaving with positive feelings, and others feeling negatively. What are some of the suggested causes for the difference in how people experience frightening things?

    The way in which the chemicals associated with scary response works.

    8- What does it mean to say that emotions can be contagious? What are the mechanisms by which emotions are contagious (e.g., why are they contagious?)?

    This is because, in similar situations, we make sense of what other people are experiencing.

    9- Why have humans evolved to experience fear in the manner that we do? What have been, and are, the benefits to our survival?

    For survive. It´s iportant for the balance between the brave and fear reactions.

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  6. People across the globe enjoy engaging in thrilling and scary activities. How do you think culture influences engagement with thrills and chills?

    The culture by itself, arouses a wide variety of feelings through the emotions and sensations. The religious and ethnics aspects, e.g., are filled with thrills and senses that act in the mind and can condition it.

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  7. Think part

    1.False
    2.Critical or cognitive functioning
    3.Excitement
    4.True
    5.All of the above
    6.False
    7.How some chemical products associated with the threat response work
    8.Because you give sense about what other people are experiencing, recreating the experience yourself
    9.Because a strong reaction is going to be store in our memory and people can see what thing can be dangerours or not.

    People across the globe enjoy engaging in thrilling and scary activities. How do you think culture influences engagement with thrills and chills?

    All cultures have diferences because of their life style, traditions and customs. I Think people enjoy doing thrilling and scary activities because this is a way to share with people and to have time for fun.

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  8. 1) Our automatic nervous system is responsible for activating the fight or flight response. True
    2) During fight or flight, our body prioritizes All the following types of brain and body functioning except for: critical or cognitive functioning
    3) The fight or flight response is similar to what other arousal states: all of the above
    4) The threat response (fight or flight) is universal, but how individuals experience and interpret the response can vary from person to person. True
    5) What are the psychological benefits of voluntarily engaging with scary situations? All of above
    6) We tend to easily forget scary experiences. False
    7) Individual can experience the same situation very differently with some leaving with positive feelings, and others feeling negatively. What are some of the suggested causes for the difference in how people experience frightening things?
    They suggested that the differences are based on the form of reaction of the chemicals in our body.
    8) What does it mean to say that emotions can be contagious? What are the mechanisms by which emotions are contagious?
    It means that see your friends enjoy an experience of scar can make you enjoy in the similar way. See the reaction of your friends in a scared experience can active the same parts of your brain that are active in their brains.
    9) Why have humans evolved to experience fear in the manner that we do? What have been, and are, the benefits of our survival?
    Because push whit the fear can make us feeling better and increasing our authoestime
    Have the right balance of bravery and fear to know when to push to the fear and when run to the tree were


    People across the globe enjoy engaging in thrilling and scary activities. How do you think culture influences engagement with thrills and chills?
    In this moment, occidental people decide to do things that make they fell fear or exciting because they do not have emotions in their life. Perhaps, people in cities have bored life, they work many hours, and they spend much time commute from work to home then they are looking for exciting things that change their routine. Advertising about these activities makes it look interesting and safe, show handsome men and beautiful women doing it; I thing that people can relate for this reason

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  9. Part1.

    1) Our automatic nervous system is responsible for activating the fight or flight response. True

    2)During fight or flight, our body prioritizes ALL the following types of brain and body functioning except for: Critical or cognitive functioning

    3) The fight or flight response is similar to what other arousal states (select all that apply): All of the above

    4) The threat response (fight or flight) is universal, but how individuals experience and interpret the response can very from person to person. True

    5) What are the psychological benefits of voluntarily engaging with scary situations. All of the above

    6)We tend to easily forget scary experiences. False

    7)Individuals can experience the same situation very differently with some leaving with positive feelings, and others feeling negatively. What are some of the suggested causes for the difference in how people experience frightening things?

    The chemicals in the body works in differents ways to response to the threat.

    8)What does it mean to say that emotions can be contagious? What are the mechanisms by which emotions are contagious (e.g., why are they contagious?)?

    We recreate the experience that we see in our friends. The brain liberate a hormone.

    9)Why have humans evolved to experience fear in the manner that we do? What have been, and are, the benefits to our survival?

    It is a great adaptation to survive.
    Benefits: Boosting self esteem, Sense of accomplishment, Feelings of bravery and courageousness. We don't forget what can be dangerous for us.

    Part2.

    People across the globe enjoy engaging in thrilling and scary activities. How do you think culture influences engagement with thrills and chills?

    The society promote these situations because do many activities like horror or suspense movies, racing programs (for example Fear Factor), atracttions (like horror house), amon others.
    Also is common to find books or hear folktales about ghost,creatures, etc. In Costa Rica we can recognize "La llorona", "La segua", "El cadejos", etc since we were children or teenagers.

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  10. Think part
    1 True
    2 Critical or cognitive functioning
    3 Excitement
    4 True
    5 All of the above
    6 False
    7 Because exist difererent chemical products associated with the emotions
    8 Because we give sense to the other people are experiencing
    9 Because a strong reaction is going to be store in our memory


    I thik when the people are close with other persons learn, do, like, enjoy what the majorite people does. So if the family for example enjoy see horror movies, the person would like those movies or at last to adapt to this reality

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  11. Think

    1. True
    2. Critical or cognitive functioning
    3. All of the above
    4. True
    5. All of the above
    6. False
    7. Because the chemical associated with the scary situations response could work in different way.
    8. Its an impulse for doing and experimenting the same that the other person is doing.
    9. Because a strong experience about fear is really difficult forget it. So, an individual can know if it is in danger or not in a specific situation later.

    Second part

    I think that the culture influences considerably. Relatives' scary stories in a camping night, challenges for show that you are brave or a new alternative for fun, are examples of reasons for engage in scare activities.

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  12. Think

    1. Our automatic nervous system is responsible for activating the fight or flight response.
    R/ True

    2. During fight or flight, our body prioritizes ALL the following types of brain and body functioning except for:
    R/ Critical or cognitive functioning

    3. The fight or flight response is similar to what other arousal states (select all that apply):
    R/All of the above

    4. The threat response (fight or flight) is universal, but how individuals experience and interpret the response can very from person to person.
    R/ True

    5. What are the psychological benefits of voluntarily engaging with scary situations?
    R/ All of the above.

    6.We tend to easily forget scary experiences.
    R/ False

    7.Individuals can experience the same situation very differently with some leaving with positive feelings, and others feeling negatively. What are some of the suggested causes for the difference in how people experience frightening things?
    R/ Because each body reacts in different chemical ways

    8.What does it mean to say that emotions can be contagious? What are the mechanisms by which emotions are contagious (e.g., why are they contagious?)?
    We feel that we can experiment same feelings and emotions other people have. There is an hormone called oxitocine that produce this impulse.

    9. Why have humans evolved to experience fear in the manner that we do? What have been, and are, the benefits to our survival?
    Humans remember fear experiences and feelings related with them. Our brain learns how we react in these situations and prepares to respond about it.

    Second Part
    People across the globe enjoy engaging in thrilling and scary activities. How do you think culture influences engagement with thrills and chills?

    Each town or country has its own scary stories and characters, they shape their culture. From these experiences, legends and customs are born , some are stories, other are adventures that give character to people.

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  13. Christian Páez Páez

    People across the globe enjoy engaging in thrilling and scary activities. How do you think culture influences engagement with thrills and chills?

    I think that all people around us influence in the frequency of scary situations. If my family or my friends usually go to hunter houses, horror films or roller coasters and others, probably I do the same.

    In my case, I like to watch horror films, but my wife and my son don’t like it. I really enjoy the emotion of The Tower of Parque de Diversiones because all that I fill when I am in the most highest is really funny, but any of my family go with me to that mechanical game.

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  14. Christian Páez Páez

    1)Our automatic nervous system is responsible for activating the fight or flight response: True
    2)During fight or flight, our body prioritizes ALL the following types of brain and body functioning except for: Critical or cognitive functioning
    3)The fight or flight response is similar to what other arousal states (select all that apply): Excitement, Surprise, Sexual arousal
    4)The threat response (fight or flight) is universal, but how individuals experience and interpret the response can very from person to person: True
    5)What are the psychological benefits of voluntarily engaging with scary situations? Boosting self esteem, Sense of accomplishment, Feelings of bravery and courageousness
    We tend to easily forget scary experiences: False

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