Shadowing Practice: 5 Crazy Ways Social Media Is Changing Your Brain Right Now - Learn English Speaking with Video
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With social media sites being used by one third of the entire world,
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they've clearly had a major influence on society.
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But what about our bodies?
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Here are five crazy ways that social media and the internet are affecting your brain right now.
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Can't log off?
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Surprisingly, 5-10% of internet users are actually unable to control how much time they spend online.
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Though it's a psychological addiction as opposed to a substance addiction,
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brain scans of these people actually show a similar impairment of regions that those with drug dependence have.
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Specifically, there's a clear degradation of white matter in the regions that control emotional processing,
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attention, and decision making.
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Because social media provides immediate rewards with very little effort required,
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your brain begins to rewire itself,
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making you desire these stimulations,
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and you begin to crave more of this neurological excitement after each interaction.
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Sounds a little like a drug, right?
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We also see a shift when looking at multitasking.
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You might think that those who use social media or are constantly switched between work and websites are better at multitasking,
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but studies have found that when comparing heavy media users to others,
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they perform much worse during task switching tests.
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Increased multitasking online reduces your brain's ability to filter out interferences
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and can even make it harder for your brain to commit information to memory.
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Like when your phone buzzes in the middle of productive work.
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Or wait, did it even buzz?
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Phantom vibration syndrome is a relatively new psychological phenomenon where you think you felt your phone go off,
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but it didn't.
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In one study, 89% of test subjects said they experienced this at least once every two weeks.
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it would seem that our brains now perceive an itch as an actual vibration from our phone.
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As crazy as it seems,
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technology has begun to rewire our nervous system,
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and our brains are being triggered in a way they never have before in history.
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Social media also triggers a release of dopamine, the feel-good chemical.
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Using MRI scans, scientists found that the reward centers in people's brains are much more active
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when they're talking about their own views as opposed to listening to others.
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Not so surprising, we all love talking about ourselves, right?
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But it turns out that while 30-40% of face-to-face conversations involve communicating our own experiences,
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around 80% of social media communication is self-involved.
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The same part of your brain related to orgasms,
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motivation, and love are stimulated by your social media use,
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and even more so when you know you have an audience.
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Our body is physiologically rewarding us for talking about ourselves online.
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But it's not also self-involved.
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In fact, studies on relationships have found
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that partners tend to like each other more if they meet for the first time online rather than with a face-to-face interaction.
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Whether it's because people are more anonymous or perhaps more clear about their future goals,
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there's a statistical increase in successful partnerships that started online.
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So while the internet has changed our verbal communication with increased physical separation,
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perhaps the ones that matter the most end up even closer.
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Speaking of social media, we had you ask us questions on Twitter,
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Instagram, Facebook, Tumblr, Google+, and every other social platform we could find,
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and did a Q&A video over on ASAP Thought,
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so if you feel like getting some insider info on ASAP Science and behind the scenes,
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check it out with the link in the description.
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Got a burning question you want answered?
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Ask it in the comments or on Facebook and Twitter.
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Box for all of you amazing science lovers who have requested to send us mail or other stuff over the years.
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Vocabulario y notas de pronunciación para esta lección
Este vídeo tiene 59 frases y 662 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 3:13. El hablante habla rápido, unas 206 palabras por minuto, así que espera sonidos enlazados y reducidos. El 85 % de las palabras está entre las 3.000 más comunes del inglés; conviene repasar el resto antes de empezar.
Vocabulario clave de este vídeo
15 palabras del vídeo que vale la pena aprender, con su pronunciación y significado:
| Palabra | Pronunciación | Significado |
|---|---|---|
| reward sustantivo | /ɹɪˈwɔɹd/ | recompensa |
| interaction sustantivo | /ˌɪn.təˈɹæk.ʃən/ | interacción, interrelación |
| psychological adjetivo | /ˌsaɪ.kəˈlɑː.d͡ʒɪ.kl̩/ | psicológico |
| trigger sustantivo | /ˈtɹɪɡɚ/ | gatillo, perrillo |
| addiction sustantivo | /əˈdɪkˌʃən/ | adicción, vicio |
| scan verbo | /skæn/ | escrutar |
| buzz sustantivo | /bʌz/ | zumbido, zurrido |
| oppose verbo | /əˈpoʊz/ | oponer, salir al encuentro |
| vibration sustantivo | /vaɪˈbɹeɪʃən/ | vibración |
| partnership sustantivo | /ˈpɑɹtnɚʃɪp/ | asociación, colaboración |
| compare verbo | /kəmˈpɛɚ/ | comparar, parangonar |
| commit verbo | /kəˈmɪt/ | encomendar |
| filter sustantivo | /ˈfɪltɚ/ | filtro |
| involve verbo | /ɪnˈvɑlv/ | involucrar |
| lover sustantivo | /ˈlʌvɚ/ | amante, enamorado |
Phrasal verbs que vas a escuchar
| Palabra | Significado |
|---|---|
| end up verbo | terminar, ir a parar |
| go off verbo | explotar |
| turn out verbo | resultar |
Pronunciación a tener en cuenta
El hablante usa 5 contracciones y formas reducidas, como can't, didn't, they're. Dilas en su forma corta, tal como las oyes.
- Los sonidos de “sh” y “zh”: interaction /ˌɪn.təˈɹæk.ʃən/, addiction /əˈdɪkˌʃən/, vibration /vaɪˈbɹeɪʃən/, partnership /ˈpɑɹtnɚʃɪp/, motivation /ˈmoʊ.tə.veɪ.ʃən/
- Palabras largas — cuida el acento: interaction /ˌɪn.təˈɹæk.ʃən/, psychological /ˌsaɪ.kəˈlɑː.d͡ʒɪ.kl̩/, motivation /ˈmoʊ.tə.veɪ.ʃən/, communicate /kəˈmjuːnɪkeɪt/, anonymous /əˈnɒn.ə.məs/
Cómo practicar con este vídeo
- Escucha el vídeo entero una vez sin hablar y anota las palabras que no conoces.
- Empieza a velocidad 0,75×, haz shadowing frase por frase y vuelve a la velocidad normal cuando te resulte fácil.
- Grábate y compara con el original, prestando atención a palabras como reward, interaction, psychological.
Gramática en este vídeo
Las estructuras que más usa el hablante, con las palabras exactas del vídeo:
| Estructura | En el vídeo |
|---|---|
| Present perfect have/has + participio pasado — una acción pasada que sigue importando ahora | have found · has begun · has changed |
| Voz pasiva be + participio pasado — importa lo que ocurre, no quién lo hace | being triggered · are stimulated |
¿Qué es la Técnica de Shadowing?
Shadowing es una técnica de aprendizaje de idiomas respaldada por la ciencia, desarrollada originalmente para la formación de intérpretes profesionales y popularizada por el políglota Dr. Alexander Arguelles. El método es simple pero poderoso: escuchas audio en inglés nativo y lo repites en voz alta de inmediato, como una sombra que sigue al hablante con solo 1-2 segundos de retraso. A diferencia de la escucha pasiva o los ejercicios de gramática, el shadowing obliga a tu cerebro y músculos de la boca a procesar y reproducir simultáneamente patrones de habla reales. Las investigaciones muestran que mejora significativamente la precisión de la pronunciación, la entonación, el ritmo, el habla conectada, la comprensión auditiva y la fluidez al hablar, convirtiéndola en una de las metodologías más efectivas para la preparación del IELTS Speaking y la comunicación en inglés en el mundo real.