Functional and emotional memory in children

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My great community of Steemit, thanks to this medium we can feel fortunate to write about topics of great interest such as the following text.

While it is true that there are things that we overlook, it is also true that it is essential to know to generate help for others, especially our children who are growing, and it is important to keep in mind that there are two ways different cognitive functioning that despite being different interact to build our mental life that will provide us with great advantages when developing in our world.

Meanwhile, the brain has two memory systems, a functional call that is the one that records the current data of each episode, and another that is responsible for storing all the information that has emotional charge, for example, if the child is find in a situation of danger as an assault, the hippocampus, which is structured, which stores the simple data records details such as the face of the assailant, the clothes he was wearing or what he said at that moment; on the other hand the amygdala consigns the feeling of anxiety or the anger that produced and accompanied this fact leaving us very marked. Which means that the more intense the feeling, the more deeply it will be engraved in the memory.

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In another aspect, if we help the child to reflect on his own experience, he may realize that in some moments the feeling is so intense that what he remembers most is the emotional charge of that specific event and not the functional data.It is to emphasize, in the fact of doing certain exercises when children have lived or have gone through episodes of crisis; first make them remember everything they felt during the event, making relevance to the feelings of that moment.

Second, guide them to evoke specific data, such as the physical characteristics of the place where the case occurred.

Third, I evaluated which of the memories produced more information: the emotive or the functional. In this way it generates peace and tranquility in the child, as well as making him aware that he can choose to remember the most emotional scenes.

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It should be noted that emotion feeds the movements of the rational, and the latter does the selective work and evaluates the emotional charge, however, when we are dominated by an impulse of anger or fear or by an intense feeling of love, there is a dominance of the emotional mind, and the same happens when we act moved by intuition where we find other types of explanations to facts that we do not consider coincidences but paranormal regarding the sixth sense.

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Finally, I can tell you that if a child is sad and expresses it openly, it is because the emotional mind is predominating, but if he tries to convince us otherwise with arguments that contradict his body language, we will conclude that the rational mind is predominant What will make us as parents very aware of what measures to take to help our little one overcome tough moments that are affecting him.

Even more if the parents of the children are divorcing, the death of a pet or the loss of a close family member, it could also be an accident where someone has been hurt. Discover those little details that in one way or another may be causing suffering in him.

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