HUMAN INTELLIGENCE

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HUMAN INTELLIGENCE

• As it connects to brain research
• Joseph Chilton Pearce
• Crack in Cosmic Egg, Magical Child, Evolution's
  End

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HUMAN BRAIN DEVELOPMENT

• In utero
• child in constant movement as heart contracts
• keeps child massaged and safe
• if loud sound, startle response
• if bright light, fetus rolls away from it
• What kind of birth would allow for best
  transition from womb? Why?

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HUMAN BRAIN DEVELOPMENT

• IN UTERO
• starting at 6 months learning all phonemes needed
  for speech from mother as she talks
• if mom is mute, needs to have another speak
  within 3 inches of tummy often or no prewiring
  for speech at birth
• What happens to speech for an infant with a mute
  mother if others do not build phoneme bank?

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HUMAN BRAIN DEVELOPMENT

• Humans have growth spurts at birth, age 1, 4, 7,
  11, 14, and 21.
• much brain growth as well
• millions of axons and dendrites become available
• in appropriate environment much myelination will
  occur

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HUMAN BRAIN DEVELOPMENT

• BIRTH
• at birth the system is ready to help infant bond
  to mother to start up whole brain process
• if the baby touches mothers skin, whole sense
  of touch system started
• Mothers face prewired to start up vision

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HUMAN BRAIN DEVELOPMENT

• if love connection is formedgtmuch myelination of
  brain cells gt initial connection of mammalian
  brain and prefrontal lobes
• if no immediate love connection gt traumagt vision
  problems, heart problems
• if positive huge growth spurt in prefrontal
  lobes
• prefrontal lobes house love, empathy, compassion
• all connected with love

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HUMAN BRAIN DEVELOPMENT

• child needs to see mothers face often (every 20
  minutes optimum)
• distance needs to be 6 - 12 inches (nursing
  distance)
• milk very watery
• contains little fat or protein
• therefore infant fed every 20 minutes when awake

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HUMAN BRAIN DEVELOPMENT

• Takes 9 months to myelinate visual system
• HCL produced at 9 months and more fat and protein
  in milk
• AGE 1
• need brain mass so child can get up on hind feet
  and walk and talk
• if much positive support much myelination of
  brain cells

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HUMAN BRAIN DEVELOPMENT

• AGE 12-24 MONTHS RISK TAKING
• What do you think happens when a child reaches
  out to touch new objects or takes first steps?
• if NO and Dont Touch! child experiences
  fight/flight response of reptilian brain

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HUMAN BRAIN DEVELOPMENT

• if repeated many times, especially with a swat
  and/or harsh tone, connection with prefrontal
  lobes reversed and connection made with lower
  reptilian brain.
• SAFE PLACE and SAFE PERSON are now UNSAFE
• with each incidence, immune system is lowered for
  6 hours
• can lead to withdrawal and depression
• cortisone produced

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HUMAN BRAIN DEVELOPMENT

• At each growth spurt, brain is asking, can I go
  for higher intelligence or do I need to survive?
• If yes, connect with prefrontal lobes and enlarge
  them.
• if no, connect with sensory motor brain and
  increase bulk of body
• (fight/flight response)

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HUMAN BRAIN DEVELOPMENT

• LANGUAGE
• concrete language
• many repetitions with real objects
• forms a picture of each thing in the imagination
• Whats that?
• hundreds of words gt phrasesgtsentences

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HUMAN BRAIN DEVELOPMENT

• World View
• extends world to include family members and close
  friends
• AGE 2- 4
• Movement
• Greater confidence running, jumping, hopping on
  two feet, balancing on one foot, throwing large
  balls, kicking large balls, riding on things,
  pushing things

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HUMAN BRAIN DEVELOPMENT

• Language development
• Continually makes images of everything
• sentences all kinds
• questions especially Why?
• tenses and idioms added to speech
• loves to play with language
• stories, poems, finger plays, nursery rhymes
• HUNDREDS OF REPETITIONS
• WHY?

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HUMAN BRAIN DEVELOPMENT

• AGE 4-5
• child connects with natural world
• spends hours piling sand, pouring water, wading
  in water, digging in the dirt, looking at
  everything that moves, creeps or crawls in nature
• likes to repeat things hundreds of times
• WHY?

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HUMAN BRAIN DEVELOPMENT

• likes stories about personified animals
• dreams or nightmares are peopled with animals
  (represent family members)
• WHY?
• AGE 6-7
• ready to connect with other humans
• if other stages have gone well, start to see
  some empathy or compassion for others

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HUMAN BRAIN DEVELOPMENT

• if other stages have produced fight/flight
  response may feel nervous and threatened by
  others
• afraid of not fitting in, constantly checking to
  make sure theyre acceptable gt pleasers
• dreams contain people

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HUMAN BRAIN DEVELOPMENT

• BURTON JONES RESEARCH (1972)
• storytelling as a vehicle to expand imagination
  during the first 7 years
• since strongest connection is with animalian
  brain, images match this
• need full sensory interaction
• much kinesthetic learning that involves many
  senses
• once words match a picture in the brain gtplay

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HUMAN BRAIN DEVELOPMENT

• AGE 11 -12
• can manipulate words without the thing being
  present
• the imagination creates the pictures of things
  not present
• can give a child a story problem orally and they
  can imagine the things you wish them to
  manipulate
• can understand part whole relationships fractions

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HUMAN BRAIN DEVELOPMENT

• AGE 14 - PUBERTY
• much brain growth with physiological changes
• ready for abstract thinking
• can apply formulas
• can understand concepts like gravity and theory
  of relativity
• can manipulate symbols freely

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HUMAN BRAIN DEVELOPMENT

• AGE 21 SELF DEFINITION
• last time human given thousands of extra brain
  cells
• able to connect self to self on deeper levels
• much energy and a feeling of something great
  will happen
• looking for connection on a universal level
• gt Peace Core work, positive effect on humanity

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HUMAN BRAIN DEVELOPMENT

• From what you have heard, what kind of education
  system do children need to maximize brain growth?
• Age 3-5
• Age 6 7
• Does our current educational system promote this?
  Why of why not?

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HUMAN BRAIN DEVELOPMENT

• Education That Supports Prefrontal Lobe Growth
• positive, non threatening
• much activity based learning
• much storying
• opportunities to repeat things many times
• activities that promote imagination and problem
  solving
• child centred and child lead

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HUMAN BRAIN DEVELOPMENT

• What kind of educational system will retard
  growth of frontal lobes?
• Do you think television a good or bad thing for
  children? Why or why not?
• Are computers a good or bad thing for early
  childhood classrooms? Why or why not?