Go upstairs, clean your room, turn the light off in your room when you are done, and when you come back downstairs, bring your math book, your science book, and the dirty laundry that's in the upstairs hamper. If you can remember to do all of this, you have a good __________
What is working memory?
100
The three main areas of executive functions
What are (1) the ability to resist distractions/delay gratification; (2) the ability to sustain working memory; and (3) the ability to have cognitive flexibility?
100
It is where the pellet with the poison is
What is the vessel with the pestle?
100
The part of the brain, associated with addictions, that lights up on MRI scans in people who are not able to delay gratification
What is the ventral stratum?
200
The phrase "I've got eyes in the back of my head" refers to this lobe
What is the occipital lobe?
200
The ability to revise plans and adapt to changing conditions and situations
What is cognitive flexibility?
200
The ability to start projects in a timely manner, without procrastinating
What is task initiation?
200
Dogs can get easily distracted by these
What are squirrels?
200
The abbreviation that helps you remember the lobes of the brain
What is FPOT?
300
This section of the brain is the brain's gas pedal
What is the occipital lobe?
300
Creating and maintaining systems to help you keep track of your time, materials and information
What is organization?
300
Knowing your deadlines and being able to estimate how much time you have to complete a task and how to allocate the time
What is time management?
300
Dr. Walter Mischel's famous "marhsmallow experiment" studied this in young children
What is the ability to delay gratification?
300
The name of the Superintendent of Schools in Falmouth
What is Marc Dupuis?
400
This section of the brain is the brain's brake pedal
What is the frontal lobe?
400
The boss of your brain -- the brain skills that control you, that allow you to manage your time, your thinking, your planning, your decision making, and your problem solving
What are executive functions?
400
Looking at the "big picture" of how you are thinking -- it's you thinking about how your thinking is going, asking yourself, "How am I doing?"
What is metacognition?
400
It is in the chalice from the palace
What is the brew that is true?
400
What TRAC stands for in your Lawrence School Agenda
What is THINK, RECORD, ACT, CHECK?
500
Even though you can get a driver's license at age 16, rental car companies do not let you rent a car until this age because the lack of development of the frontal lobe until this age results in drivers taking too many risks while driving
What is 25?
500
The ability to stop and think before you act
What is response inhibition?
500
WARNING -- just because you have read something before, or heard something before, doesn't mean you necessarily fully understand it
What is beware of familiarity?
500
Dr. Walter Mischel discovered that the children who were capable of not eating a marshmallow and waiting 15 minutes did this
What is talk to themselves?
500
Ten body parts with 3 letters
What are arm, ear, eye, gum, hip, jaw, leg, lip, rib, toe? (bum also allowed!)