The Brain
Lesson 9
Lessons 1 & 3
Lesson 2, 4 & 5
Lesson 6-7
100
It weighs 3 lbs.
What is the brain?
100
The system in which the brain processes information in order to learn and store information in memory.
What is the information processing system?
100
Carol Dweck is the Standford psychology professor who did research on mindsets and determined there are two of these.
What is fixed and growth mindset?
100

With the Time Management Quadrant system, the best quadrant to spend the most amount of your time focusing on prevention, planning, and relationship building resulting in balance, discipline and control.

What is Quadrant II, important and not urgent?

100

Paying attention to understand the meaning of the information being heard with intent to remember and interest.

What is active listening?

200
One of the halves of the brain (be specific).
What is the right/left hemisphere?
200
Stage 1 of the information processing system.
What is sensory memory?
200
Intelligence can be developed, effort is the path to mastery challenges are embraced, persists in the face of ?obstacles and learns from criticism.
What is growth mindset?
200
With the Time Management Quadrant system, the quadrant that focuses on time wasters, resulting in total irresponsibility if this is where you spend majority if not all of your time.
What is Quadrant IV, not important and not urgent?
200
Hearing the sounds of words being spoken but not paying attention to understand, listening to hear with very little motivation to listen attentively.
What is passive listening?
300
The other half of the brain (be specific).
What is the right/left hemisphere?
300
Stage 2 of the information processing system.
What is short term memory (working memory)?
300

Learning that is guided by metacognition, which means students are aware & think about thinking & learning. Learning that takes place when the learner takes control of his/her own learning behavior to achieve educational goals.

What is self-regulated learning?

300

This requires 2 answers: 1) The extent to which people believe they have power over events in their lives. 2) Persons with this type of locus of control are CREATORS who believe that they can influence events and outcomes in their lives.

1) What is locus of control? 2) What is internal locus of control?

300
With the Cornell Note-Taking System, writing questions allows you to review and employ rehearsal strategies. Answering the questions, as you study, also helps you to think critically about the information you learned. This is what is needed in this stage of the information processing system.
What is short-term memory (working memory)?
400
The bundle of nerve fibers that connect the two parts of the brain.
What is the corpus callosum?
400
Stage 3 of the information processing system.
What is long term memory?
400

3 M's of self-regulated learning.

What is method of learning, motivation, and monitoring performance?

400
These levels known as Bloom’s Taxonomy describe levels of thinking or intellectual behavior that increase in complexity. Name them in the proper order.
What is knowledge, understanding/comprehension, application, analysis, synthesis, and evaluation?
400
Reading comprehension strategies that help you correct your understanding (or misunderstandings) as you read.
What are "fix up" strategies?
500
An electroencephalogram (EEG) is used to measure...
What is brain activity?
500
Information comes from these 5 things and from there you have to select what information is going into sensory memory.
What is the five senses: hands, mouth, ears, eyes, nose?
500

3 U's of self-regulated learning.

What is use of social environment, use of physical environment and use of time management?

500

For a goal to be an effective well written goal, it needs to follow this method.

What is SMART Goals: Specific, Measurable, Action Oriented, Realistic, Time frame

500
Images of knowledge that organizes information in ways to explain facts, ideas or relationships. They help students to perform higher order critical thinking by aiding them in organizing, analyzing, & evaluating information and develop cognitive skills for processing information for deeper understanding and learning.
What are visual representations?
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