Question

Read the passage and answer the question that follows.

"A way to deal with frozen feelings"

Every child experiences all that happens around him with total awareness. In the first seven years the child's brain is like a sponge, taking in all sensory inputs and building his idea of his surroundings. As long as the environment is safe, the child learns with incredible speed. However, when the environment is scary or stressful, the child unlearns past learning just as rapidly.

In the early years of every child's life, whenever there is shock, violence, fear or pain, these intense emotions are imprinted deeply into memory. Whenever the same activity or situation is repeated, the nervous system and body subconsciously re-experience the memory of that trauma.

Any emotional situation that takes us out of the present and into the past means that whenever the same kind of emotion crops up later in our life we return to the past for our reference point. If that point was at age three, we find ourselves behaving like a three-year-old. We feel childish and we behave childishly. Our feelings are the cause of this 'glitch' in our learning process. We know we should be able to make a positive change, but that doesn't change anything.

The process of change need not be traumatic. We couldn't have done any better because we didn't know how to. But we should realise that was then and this is now! We can choose to choose again. It's up to us. It's our movie!

A 'glitch' is:

• A. A ditch
• B. Uneasy emotions
• C. Sudden malfunction or breakdown
• D. Learning patterns

Hint:

Think of the common dictionary meaning of the word "glitch".

Answer 1

The Correct Option is C

Step 1: Find the word "glitch" in the passage.
The passage says "Our feelings are the cause of this 'glitch' in our learning process," right after describing us acting childish when an old emotion returns.

Step 2: Read the sentence around it for meaning.
The passage is describing something going wrong, we act like a three year old instead of like our normal adult self, so the word is standing in for a sudden slip or breakdown in our usual behaviour.

Step 3: Match this sense to the options.
Option A, a ditch, is only a sound alike word and has no connection to the passage. Option B, uneasy emotions, describes a feeling but not the sudden malfunction the passage is pointing at. Option D, learning patterns, is too broad and is not what "glitch" specifically names.

Final Answer:
In this context, "glitch" means a sudden malfunction or breakdown in how we normally respond. \[ \boxed{\text{Sudden malfunction or breakdown}} \]