ASSIGMENT

THE HUMAN BRAIN:

How The Brain WorksAnd How
Students Can Respond
THINKING SKILL FCE3204
NAME : CHONG JING SIONG
MATRIX NUMBER: 181548
DR. RAMLI BIN BASRI

Features of the Human Brain

Consists of :
-78% water & air,
-10% fat
-8% protein.
Average weight: 1.5 kg | volume: 1130 cm3.
Represents only 2 per cent of body weight, but receives 15 per cent of the
cardiac output and consumes 20 per cent of total body oxygen.
Utilizes up to 25 per cent of the energy used by the human body in the form of
glucose, more than any other organ.
Contains 160,000 km of blood vessels.
Consists of approximately 75 per cent water.
Consists of about 100 billion neurons -same as the number of stars in our galaxy
-and anywhere from 1,000 to 10,000 synapses for each neuron. The cerebellum
contains half of all the neurons but comprises only 10 per cent of the brain.
There are no pain receptors in the brain, so the brain can feel no pain.
The brain can stay alive for 4 to 6 minutes without oxygen
before cells begin to die.

BRAIN STRUTURE

The brain can be divided into the

-cerebrum
-brainstem
-cerebellum

Functions
Cerebrum
initiation of movement, coordination of movement, temperature, touch, vision, hearing,
judgment, reasoning, problem solving, emotions, and learning.

Cerebellum
coordinate voluntary muscle movements and to maintain posture, balance, and equilibrium
Brainstem (middle brain)
movement of the eyes and mouth, relaying
sensory messages (hot, pain, loud, etc.), hunger,
respirations, consciousness, cardiac function,
body temperature, involuntary muscle
movements, sneezing, coughing, vomiting,
and swallowing.

Brain consists of 4 sections (lobes):

Your brain's hemispheres are divided into four
lobes.

The frontal lobes control thinking,

planning, organizing, problem solving,
short-term memory and movement.

The parietal lobes interpret sensory

information, such as taste, temperature
and touch.

The occipital lobes process images

from your eyes and link that information
with images stored in memory.

The temporal lobes process

information from your senses of smell,
taste and sound. They also play a role in
memory storage.

-The human brain is a remarkable organ. Every moment it takes in a massive amount of
information and organises it into patterns that we can recognize and understand.
-However, the brain can only process so much information at one time
-When we decide to focus on something, the brain automatically selects out information that
does not support that area of focus.

-We start seeing more of what we're looking for and less of what we aren't looking for.
-The danger comes when we start looking for the wrong things. If we look for
problems, we will find them!

-Conversely, if you start focusing on your goal

and vision, you will see every opportunity
that comes your way.

-On problems and you miss the opportunity.

On opportunity and the problems will vanish.

key to success
They key to success is to delete problems, not
solutions. That's why setting goals and having
a vision is so important
The human brain also has a tendency to
distort or exaggerate the truth to make the
good things better and the bad things worse.

Distortion is characterised by the use of

extreme words such as "never" or "always.
-That client never accepts my calls
-Ive always been rubbish at sales

-Every time I call they are rude to me

-No one is hiring at the moment

Generalise
-Generalisation is the process through which
our beliefs are formed. This is where we draw
global conclusions based on one, two or more
experiences.

-At its best, generalisation is one of the ways

that we learn, whereby we take the
information we have and draw broad
conclusions about the world based on one or
more experiences.

-At its worst, generalisation is how we take a

single event and make it into a lifetime of
experience. This is a common occurrence in
sales!

Support your brain to improve your !

-Focus on the positives

-Mind your language
-Dont hallucinate!