scholarly journals Management of Mathematics Anxiety through Behaviour Modification, Super brain Yoga and JPMR in Ninth Standard Student

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Dr. Rajesh Ganesan ◽  
Pankaj Singh
Keyword(s):  
Information Processing ◽  
Mathematics Anxiety ◽  
Math Anxiety ◽  
Rating Scale ◽  
Emotional Reactions ◽  
Progressive Muscle Relaxation ◽  
Hemispheric Dominance ◽  
Human Information Processing ◽  
Behaviour Modification ◽  
The Brain

Mathematics Anxiety is an irrational fear of Mathematics. Mathematics Anxiety is defined as “the presence of a syndrome of emotional reactions to arithmetic and mathematics” (Dreger & Aiken, 1957, p.344). It creates a feeling of tension, apprehension, or fear that interferes with performance in Mathematics and also results in ‘Mathematics-Avoidance’. Further, ‘Mathematics-Avoidance’ leads to less competency, exposure and practice of Mathematics, leaving students more anxious and mathematically, unprepared to achieve. Math anxiety is a learned response that inhibits cognitive performance in the math classroom. It is widespread among students from elementary age through college. Students suffering from math anxiety have difficulty performing calculations and maintaining a positive outlook on mathematics. Math anxiety is the result of a cycle of math avoidance that begins with negative experiences regarding mathematics. These students avoid Mathematic courses and tend to feel negative towards Mathematics and this also affects student’s overall confidence level. However, Behaviour Modification techniques have proven instruments that can reduce various types of anxieties and Super Brain Yoga for improving integration of the brain. This is a case study of a student of IX standard, Kendriya Vidalaya, Who was referred by his Mathematics teacher and parent complaining that the student becomes anxious whenever he encounters Mathematic problems. After taking Math autobiography it was revealed that the anxiety began due to harsh handling by father while teaching Mathematics. Students score in recent Mathematic exam was noted very low i.e 12/40. His Mathematics Anxiety was assessed by using Suri, Monroe and Koc’s (2012) short Mathematics Anxiety Rating Scale. Student’s hemispheric dominance of the brain was measured by using Taggart and Torrance’s Human Information Processing Survey (1984). This student was treated with Behaviour Modification techniques and Super Brain Yoga for six weeks. Interventions used are: (i) Reduction of Rate of Breathing (Ganesan, 2012). (ii) Jacobson Progressive Muscle Relaxation (Jacobson, 1938) (iii) Laughter Technique (Ganesan, 2008b). (iv) Develpoment of Alternate Emotional Responses to the Threatening Stimulus (Ganesan, 2008a). (v) Super Brain Yoga (Sui, 2005). The anxiety level and performance in Mathematics exam was reassessed after six weeks. Results showed that Mathematics Anxiety was significantly reduced (60 to 20, 40%) and he performed better in the Mathematics exam (12/40 to 24/40, 30%). After reassessing student on Human Information Processing Survey by Taggart and Torrance (1984), it was found that student’s dominant information processing mode was ‘Integrated’ and this shows that Behaviour Modification techniques and Super Brain Yoga are efficient in treating Mathematics Anxiety.

scholarly journals Management of Mathematics Phobia among Ninth Standard Students

2016 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Pankaj Singh
Keyword(s):  
Mathematics Anxiety ◽  
Rating Scale ◽  
Group Performance ◽  
Hemispheric Dominance ◽  
Human Information Processing ◽  
Average Score ◽  
Behaviour Modification ◽  
And Performance ◽  
And Mathematics ◽  
The Brain

This research is carried out on 60 students of IX Standard, Kendriya Vidalaya. Students were selected for the therapy on the basis of their SUD score. After taking math autobiography it was revealed that anxiety in mathematics for the students was developed due to various causes and the students were not dyslexic. Student’s average score in the recent mathematics exam was noted. Mathematics anxiety was assessed by using suri, monroe and koc’s (2012) short mathematics anxiety rating scale and their hemispheric dominance of the brain was measured by using Taggart and Torrance’s Human Information Processing Survey (1984). Students were treated with behaviour modification techniques and super brain yoga for six weeks. Interventions used are: I. Reduction of Rate of Breathing (Ganesan, 2012). II. Laughter Technique (Ganesan, 2008b). III. Develpoment of Alternate Emotional Responses to the Threatening Stimulus (Ganesan, 2008a). IV. Super Brain Yoga (Sui, 2005). The anxiety level and performance in mathematics exam was reassessed after six weeks. Results showed that mathematics anxiety and mathematics SUDs were significantly reduced, which improved the group performance in mathematics exam. This shows that behaviour modification techniques and super brain yoga are efficient in treating mathematics anxiety.

scholarly journals Management of Mathematics Anxiety through Behaviour Technology, Super Brain Yoga and Varmalogy in Ninth Standard Students

2016 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Pankaj Singh
Keyword(s):  
Mathematics Anxiety ◽  
Rating Scale ◽  
Emotional Responses ◽  
Hemispheric Dominance ◽  
Human Information Processing ◽  
Average Score ◽  
Behaviour Modification ◽  
And Performance ◽  
And Mathematics ◽  
The Brain

This research is carried out on 35 students of IX standard, Kendriya Vidalaya. Students were selected for the therapy on the basis of their SUD score. After taking Math autobiography it was revealed that anxiety in Mathematics for the students was developed due to various causes and the students were not Dyslexic. Student’s average score in the recent Mathematics exam was noted. Mathematics Anxiety was assessed by using Suri, Monroe and Koc’s (2012) short Mathematics Anxiety Rating Scale and their hemispheric dominance of the brain was measured by using Taggart and Torrance’s Human Information Processing Survey (1984). Students were treated with Behaviour Modification techniques, Adappa Kalam and Super Brain Yoga for four weeks. For the study Interventions used are: (i) Reduction of Rate of Breathing (Ganesan, 2012). (ii) Laughter Technique (Ganesan, 2008). (iii) Develpoment of Alternate Emotional Responses to the Threatening Stimulus (Ganesan, 2008). (iv) Adappa Kalam (Shunmugom, 2014) (v) Super Brain Yoga (Sui, 2005). The Anxiety level and performance in Mathematics exam was reassessed after four weeks. Results showed that group’s Mathematics Anxiety and Mathematics SUDs were significantly reduced from 65.14 to 52.49 and 60.63 to 48.29 respectively. Eventually, it significantly improved the group’s average performance in Mathematics exam from 51.43 to 58.60. This shows that Behaviour Modification techniques, Adappa Kalam and Super Brain Yoga are efficient in treating Mathematics Anxiety.

scholarly journals A Synergistic Workspace for Human Consciousness Revealed by Integrated Information Decomposition

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrea I. Luppi ◽  
Pedro A.M. Mediano ◽  
Fernando E. Rosas ◽  
Judith Allanson ◽  
John D. Pickard ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Information Processing ◽  
Human Brain ◽  
Information Integration ◽  
Conscious Experience ◽  
Human Information Processing ◽  
Loss Of Consciousness ◽  
Mathematical Framework ◽  
Human Consciousness ◽  
The Brain ◽  
Integrated Information

AbstractA central goal of neuroscience is to understand how the brain synthesises information from multiple inputs to give rise to a unified conscious experience. This process is widely believed to require integration of information. Here, we combine information theory and network science to address two fundamental questions: how is the human information-processing architecture functionally organised? And how does this organisation support human consciousness? To address these questions, we leverage the mathematical framework of Integrated Information Decomposition to delineate a cognitive architecture wherein specialised modules interact with a “synergistic global workspace,” comprising functionally distinct gateways and broadcasters. Gateway regions gather information from the specialised modules for processing in the synergistic workspace, whose contents are then further integrated to later be made widely available by broadcasters. Through data-driven analysis of resting-state functional MRI, we reveal that gateway regions correspond to the brain’s well-known default mode network, whereas broadcasters of information coincide with the executive control network. Demonstrating that this synergistic workspace supports human consciousness, we further apply Integrated Information Decomposition to BOLD signals to compute integrated information across the brain. By comparing changes due to propofol anaesthesia and severe brain injury, we demonstrate that most changes in integrated information happen within the synergistic workspace. Furthermore, it was found that loss of consciousness corresponds to reduced integrated information between gateway, but not broadcaster, regions of the synergistic workspace. Thus, loss of consciousness may coincide with breakdown of information integration by this synergistic workspace of the human brain. Together, these findings demonstrate that refining our understanding of information-processing in the human brain through Integrated Information Decomposition can provide powerful insights into the human neurocognitive architecture, and its role in supporting consciousness.

scholarly journals Mathematics Anxiety and Prevention Strategy: To Support Students and Strengthen Mathematics Education in District Kangra of Himachal Pradesh

2021 ◽  
pp. 51-57
Author(s):  
Dr. Ashwani Kumar
Keyword(s):  
Mathematics Achievement ◽  
Mathematics Anxiety ◽  
Math Anxiety ◽  
Structural Model ◽  
Rating Scale ◽  
Negative Relationship ◽  
Himachal Pradesh ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Relationship Of

In the process of reaching a medium income country, science, mathematics and technology have become an emphasis of Ethiopia. But, currently, students’ interest to study mathematics and ability in mathematics is declining. This study therefore aimed to investigate the prevalence of mathematics anxiety and its effect on students’ current mathematics achievement. Additionally, by grounding on the literature, some strategies supposed to reduce the negative effects of math anxiety were identified for practice. The study was conducted on five randomly selected public secondary schools of district Kangra of Rural region in Himachal Pradesh. Math anxiety was measured using a validated instrument called Math Anxiety Rating Scale (MARS), whereas students’ current mathematics achievement was measured using achievement test. Structural model was developed to examine causal relationship of the variables treated in the study. The finding revealed that there was a significant negative relationship between mathematics anxiety and achievement. There was also a statistically significant gender difference in mathematics anxiety and current math achievement, with effect size small and typical respectively. Based on the findings of the study, imperative implication for practice and future research were made.

Age and Information Processing

1997 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 247-257 ◽  
Author(s):  
István Czigler ◽  
Gergely Csibra ◽  
Ágnes Ambró
Keyword(s):  
Information Processing ◽  
Event Related Potentials ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Human Information Processing ◽  
Attentional Processes ◽  
Age Related ◽  
Related Potentials ◽  
Effects Of Aging ◽  
Identification Processes ◽  
The Brain

This paper reviews our recent studies on the effects of aging on human information processing. In these studies the event-related potentials of the brain (ERPs) recorded in visual discrimination tasks were compared in younger and older groups of subjects in four experiments. We obtained a slight age-related delay of the NA component of the ERP. This component is a correlate of elementary pattern-identification processes. Obvious latency differences appeared on the anterior positivity, selection negativity, and N2b components in tasks where the target stimuli were defined by two stimulus characteristics. These components are correlates of attentional processes, i.e., the results support the view emphasizing age-related decline of the attentional processes. In the elderly the late positivity was less sensitive to stimulus probability, and in the older groups this component was more evenly distributed over the scalp. These results are considered as an indication that the structure of stimulus sequences was less efficiently represented in the older subjects.

Strange Inversions

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andy Clark
Keyword(s):  
Information Processing ◽  
Human Experience ◽  
Bayesian Estimator ◽  
Human Information Processing ◽  
The Brain

Strange inversions occur when things work in ways that turn received wisdom upside down. Hume offered a strangely inverted story about causation, and Darwin, about apparent design. Dennett suggests that a strange inversion also occurs when we project our own reactive complexes outward, painting our world with elusive properties like cuteness, sweetness, blueness, sexiness, funniness, and more. Such properties strike us as experiential causes, but they are (Dennett argues) really effects—a kind of shorthand for whole sets of reactive dispositions rooted in the nuts and bolts of human information processing. Understanding the nature and origins of that strange inversion, Dennett believes, is thus key to understanding the nature and origins of human experience itself. This paper examines this claim, paying special attention to recent formulations that link that strange inversion to the emerging vision of the brain as a Bayesian estimator, constantly seeking to predict the unfolding sensory barrage.

Estimates of Validity and Reliability for the Hemispheric Mode Indicator

1997 ◽  
Vol 85 (3_suppl) ◽  
pp. 1355-1364 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steve E. Hartman ◽  
Jaime Hylton
Keyword(s):  
Information Processing ◽  
Medical Students ◽  
Principal Components ◽  
Concurrent Validity ◽  
Latent Variable ◽  
Hemispheric Dominance ◽  
Human Information Processing ◽  
Nurse Anesthetist ◽  
Validity And Reliability

Concurrent validity of scores of the Hemispheric Mode Indicator (a measure of cognitive hemispheric dominance) was assessed by product-moment correlation with scores for the Human Information Processing Survey (a more-studied measure of hemispheric dominance) for 27 nurse-anesthetist students and 94 medical students ( r = .61 and .69, respectively). For 70 of the medical students, test-retest stability was only fair ( r = .74). For 525 undergraduates and 156 medical students, although alpha coefficients were .78 and .84, respectively, consideration of interitem correlations and principal components analyses indicated that some of the Hemispheric Mode Indicator's items are unsuitable as worded and that the 32 items probably represent more than one underlying latent variable.

Conditions in Which Math Anxiety Decrements Performance on Working Memory Capacity Measures

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jacob Lee
Keyword(s):  
Working Memory ◽  
Mathematics Anxiety ◽  
Math Anxiety ◽  
Rating Scale ◽  
Working Memory Capacity ◽  
Memory Capacity ◽  
Clinical Settings ◽  
Female Undergraduate ◽  
Math Task ◽  
Anxiety Treatment

Experiencing math anxiety comes with cognitive costs. The purpose of this study was to test the conditions under which math anxiety decrements working memory capacity. Half the sample of female undergraduate participants received a warning that the study would involve a difficult math task. All participants then completed two working memory assessments, one math-related task and one non-math-related task. Math anxiety was assessed with a short Mathematics Anxiety Rating Scale. Results suggest that math-anxious individuals given a warning performed worse than both those without the warning and non-math-anxious individuals. The decrements from math anxiety appeared to specifically harm performance on tasks that overtly involve math as it seems that people struggle most when they plan to struggle. This could provide insight for anxiety treatment in educational and clinical settings.

scholarly journals Procedural Control Versus Resources as Potential Origins of Human Hyper Selectivity

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ulrich Ansorge ◽  
Christian Büsel ◽  
Marlene Forstinger ◽  
Daniel Gugerell ◽  
Markus Grüner ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Information Processing ◽  
Human Information Processing ◽  
Resource Limitations ◽  
Functional Perspective ◽  
Current Review ◽  
Procedural Control ◽  
Neurophysiological Data ◽  
Control Versus ◽  
Selective Processing ◽  
The Brain

In the current review, we argue that experimental results usually interpreted as evidence for cognitive resource limitations could also reflect functional necessities of human information processing. First, we point out that selective processing of only specific features, objects, or locations at each moment in time allows humans to monitor the success and failure of their own overt actions and covert cognitive procedures. We then proceed to show how certain instances of selectivity are at odds with commonly assumed resource limitations. Next, we discuss examples of seemingly automatic, resource-free processing that challenge the resource view but can be easily understood from the functional perspective of monitoring cognitive procedures. Finally, we suggest that neurophysiological data supporting resource limitations might actually reflect mechanisms of how procedural control is implemented in the brain.

Auditory Information Processing by Normal and C. V. A. Hemiplegic Adults

1974 ◽  
Vol 38 (3) ◽  
pp. 855-860
Author(s):  
Glenn E. Snelbecker ◽  
William Fullard ◽  
Anne Reiling ◽  
Craig Love
Keyword(s):  
Information Processing ◽  
Human Information Processing ◽  
Auditory Information ◽  
Control Groups ◽  
Rigorous Research ◽  
Auditory Information Processing ◽  
The Brain ◽  
Research Equipment ◽  
Normal Adults ◽  
Subject Differences

This study is one of a series in which operant research equipment and information-theory findings are used in an experimental analysis of human information processing of auditory stimuli. Right hemiplegics, left hemiplegics, non-brain-damaged patients, and normal adults were presented three levels of tasks ranging from easy to moderately difficult. The brain-damaged Ss showed greater inter-subject differences and were less proficient than the control groups on the moderately difficult tasks. It was suggested that laterality differences may only be apparent on more difficult tasks. The study demonstrated the feasibility of rigorous research procedures for assessing individual patients' auditory information processing.

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