MANAGING

IMPULSIVE
BEHAVIOUR

Importance and Steps in

Managing Impulsive Behavior

HOMEWORK BOOK

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 LESSON OBJECTIVES

The students will be able to:

1. State the importance of managing impulsive
behavior;
2. Enumerate the steps in managing impulsive
behavior;
3. Use keywords to draw and label the three parts
of the brain.

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The Importance of Managing
Impulsive Behavior
PREPARATORY ACTIVITY

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Activity 1: Share an Impulsive
Behavior in the Past
My phone is gone. Hey …. Did
you take it? You DID, didn’t
you? Give it back now. Or I’ll
Make you!

Raging about his phone

again? Probably left it in his
car like last week. Wish this
guy’d learn to decompress.

INSTRUCTIONS: Have you become impulsive in

the past ? Share the experience.

Share here.

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Activity 2: The Importance of
Managing Impulsive Behavior
INSTRUCTIONS: Enumerate the importance of
Managing impulsive behavior.

Answer here.

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Keywords and Definition
for Your Brain

Practice

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 Keywords &Definitions

INSTRUCTIONS: Please write down the definitions of the

Keywords given below.

Decompress: Answer here

Emotional Brain: Answer here

Emotional Hijack: Answer here

Impulsive: Answer here

Reptilian Brain: Answer here

Thinking Brain: Answer here

 Keywords &Definitions

INSTRUCTIONS: Name the parts of human brain in the

diagram.

Answer here

Answer here
Answer here
Strategies and Steps on Managing
impulsive Behavior

Practice

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 Elements of a Realistic
Fiction Narrative?
INSTRUCTION: Complete the diagram by writing three steps
involved in managing impulsive behavior.

01 Answer
here
03

Answer Answer
here
02 here

INSTRUCTION: Explain the three steps as follows.

Step-1
Answer here

Step-2
Answer here

Step-3:
Answer here
Answers

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The Importance of Managing
Impulsive Behavior
PREPARATORY ACTIVITY

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Activity 1: Share an Impulsive
Behavior in the Past
My phone is gone. Hey …. Did
you take it? You DID, didn’t
you? Give it back now. Or I’ll
Make you!

Raging about his phone

again? Probably left it in his
car like last week. Wish this
guy’d learn to decompress.

INSTRUCTIONS: Have you become impulsive in

the past ? Share the experience.

Answer may vary.

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Activity 2: The Importance of
Managing Impulsive Behavior
INSTRUCTIONS: Enumerate the importance of
Managing impulsive behavior.

When you feel threatened, angry, afraid, or out of

control, the reptilian and emotional parts of your
brain may cause you to act impulsively(without
careful thought) or emotionally (based solely on
your feelings and not logical reasons). When you
feel threatened, angry, afraid, or out of control, the
reptilian and emotional parts of your brain may
cause you to act impulsively(without careful
thought) or emotionally (based solely on your
feelings and not logical reasons).

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Keywords and Definition
for Your Brain

Practice

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 Keywords &Definitions

INSTRUCTIONS: Please write down the definitions of the

Keywords given below.

Decompress: To relieve of pressure and return to normal.

Emotional Brain: The limbic system (middle brain), which

produces impulsive behaviors based on feelings.

Emotional Hijack: A state in which a person acts or makes

decisions based on overwhelming impulses or emotions instead
of logical reasons.

Impulsive: Doing or saying things suddenly or without

careful thought or planning.

Reptilian Brain: The brain stem or cerebellum (lower brain),

which produces impulsive behaviors based on instincts.

Thinking Brain: The neocortex (main outer brain) which

produces logical behaviors based on analysis and reason.
 Keywords &Definitions

INSTRUCTIONS: Name the parts of human brain in following

diagram.

Neocortex
Thinking Brain

Limbic Brain
Emotional Brain Reptilian Brain
Instinctive Brain
Strategies and Steps on Managing
impulsive Behavior

Practice

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 Elements of a Realistic
Fiction Narrative?
INSTRUCTION: Complete the diagram by writing three steps
involved in managing impulsive behavior.

01 Decompress
your brain by 03
moving
attention away.
Recognize when When Reptilian
you are brain is clam,
emotionally
hijacked. 02 resume normal
activity.

INSTRUCTION: Explain the three steps as follows.

Step-1: When you feel overwhelming impulses, stress or

emotions start to control your words or actions, recognize
that your emotionally hijacked.

Step-2 : To help your brain decompress, stop talking, take

deep breaths, walk away, find a quiet place, exercise, read a
book or listen to music.

Step-3: When Reptilian and emotional brains are clam and

your thinking brain is back in charge, resume normal
activity.
WELL DONE

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 THANK YOU

AND

KEEP LEARNING!

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