Resource: Your Brain and Moral Decision Making
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QuickTime Video
Length: 4m 35s
Size: 12.8 MB
In this video segment adapted from Curious, researchers at Caltech determine how the brain responds to making positive and negative moral decisions by setting up a “give/take” experiment. Subjects were challenged to either give meal donations to orphans who live in a children’s home in Uganda or take meals away. In the “give” scenario, subjects were shown photographs of the orphans. They had to decide who would receive meals and how many meals each child would receive. In the “take” scenario, subjects had to decide how many meals they would take away. Researchers chronicled the positive feelings that resulted during the "give" scenario, when the part of the brain called the orbital frontal cortex was stimulated, and the negative feelings that resulted in the "take meals" scenario, when the insula part of the brain was stimulated.
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Loading reviews...Teachers' Domain, Your Brain and Moral Decision Making, published August 26, 2008, retrieved on ,
http://www.teachersdomain.org/resource/vtl07.la.ws.research.yourbrain/
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Print Frame and FocusThe following Frame, Focus and Follow-up suggestions are best suited for middle school students using this video in an English language arts or science lesson. Be sure to modify the questions to meet your students' instructional needs.
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Frame (ELA) What does the verb “summarize” mean? What do you have to do with information when you are asked to summarize it?
Focus (ELA) As you watch the video, condense the events shown by creating a sequential list of the most important actions that occur.
Frame (SCI) What are the steps of the scientific method that are used when conducting experiments?
Focus (SCI) Why is it important that all steps of the scientific method are followed in the experiment?
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