YOUR

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YOUR FANTASTIC BRAIN
Your 3 kinds of brain reptilian, mammalian, and
the thinking brain. Your 2 brains the left brain
and right brain hemispheres. Your 1 brain the
power of whole-brain activity. Your 8
intelligences your personal unique mix of
ability.
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REPTILIAN BRAIN (The Brain Stem)
Controls many basic functions including
breathing, heart rate, and instinct. Also
controls other primitive instincts--your sense of
territory.
It helps explain why anger is difficult to
control because it is often a result either of
feeling threatened or of someone trying to take
away something you think is yours.
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THE MAMMALIAN BRAIN (The Limbic System)
Emotion
Sex
Memory
Health
Key Components Hypothalamus and Amygdala
Controls your hormones, thirst, hunger,
sexuality, pleasure centers, metabolism, immune
function, and important part of long-term
memory. This part of our brain that controls
emotions also controls health.
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THE THINKING BRAIN (Neocortex)
The part of brain that makes us most human, that
makes humans a unique species.
Handles seeing, hearing, creating, thinking,
talking ---? all higher intelligences.

• The Specialist parts of the neocortex
• Speech
• Hearing
• Vision
• Touch

Human prefrontal lobes exercise
judgment, planning, and higher order thinking.
Since this area also linked strongly to limbic
system it is also where we develop compassion,
altruism, and a sense of justice.
It is the thinking brain that has given human
being the capacity of adaptation.
Cogito, Ergo Sum
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Our Two Brains
Left brain
Right brain
Left brain specializes in academic aspects of
learning language and mathematical processes,
logical thoughts, sequences, and analysis.
Right brain specializes in creative activities
utilizing rhyme, rhythm, music, visual
impressions, color, and pictures.--? metaphorical
mind looking for analogies and patterns.
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A New View of Intelligence
IQ an individuals mental age, as determined by
intelligence testing, divided by the
persons chronological age multiplied by 100.
IQ test predominantly measures an individuals
ability with linguistic and Logical-mathematical
challenges as well as some visual and spatial
tasks.
? 100 Sd 16
IQ test is reasonably good at measuring and
predicting a students school performance.
Intelligence is an ability to solve a problem or
fashion a product that is valued in one or more
cultural settings (Howard Gardner, Frames of
Mind The Theory of Multiple Intelligences, 1985).
Linguistic intelligence Logical-mathematical
intelligence Visual-spatial intelligence Musical
intelligence Bodily-kinesthetic
intelligence Interpersonal (social)
intelligence Intrapersonal intelligence Naturalist
intelligence Eksistencial (spiritual inteligence)
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A New View of Intelligence (Howard Gardner, 1985)
Linguistic intelligence The ability to read,
write, and communicate with words (authors,
journalists, poets, orators, and comedians).
Logical-mathematical The ability to reason and
calculate, to think things through in
a intelligence logical, systematic manner
(engineers, scientists, economists, accountants,
detectives, and members of legal profession).
Visual-spatial The ability to think in pictures,
visualize a future result (architects, intelligenc
e artists, sculptors, sailors, photographers,
and strategic planners).
Musical intelligence The ability to make or
compose music, to sing well, or understand, and
appreciate music (musicians, composers, and
recording engineers).
Bodily-kinesthetic The ability to use your body
skillfully to solve problems, create
intelligence products, or present ideas and
emotions (athletes, artists, dancers, actors, and
all physically talented people).
Interpersonal (social) The ability to work
effectively with others, to relate to other
intelligence people and display empathy and
understanding, to notice their motivations and
goals (teachers, facilitators, therapists,
politicians, leaders, and salespeople).
Intrapersonal The ability for self analysis and
reflection-to be able to quietly intelligence
contemplate and assess ones accomplishment and
innermost feelings, to make plan and set goals,
to know oneself (philosophers, counselors, and
many peak performers)
Naturalist intelligence The ability to recognize
flora and fauna, to make other consequ-ential
distinctions in the natural world, and to use
this ability pro- ductively (hunter, farmers,
botanists, biologists, environmentalists). Eksiste
ncial