Learning How To Learn
Week 1
Week 1
(using a pinball for analogy)
This mode has tight spacing for the rubber bumpers, which seems to, in some sense keep your thoughts concentrated.
what is focus mode?
The 3 steps below are vitally important in making what?
1. Practice to help you gain mastery and a sense of the big-picture context
2. Understanding of the basic idea
3. Focused attention
What is a chunk?
These four parts describe what:
1. The belief.
2. The cue.
3. The routine.
4. The reward.
What is Habits?
This hemisphere of the brain plays as the Devils Advocate.
What is the Right hemisphere.
If it is toward the end of the day and you are already tired, go to ______ and try again in the morning.
What is Sleep?
Focusing intently on the parts of the problem that are more difficult to you, best describes.
What is Deliberate Practice?
By alternating your practice with different types of problems--don't waste study time by simply repeating the same technique over and over again.
What is Interleave?
"the first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easist perons to fool."
Who is Richard Feynman
This technique, you want to ensure that, as much as possible, you remove all distractions and temptations that might bother or distract you during the time you are working and to give yourself a little reward at the end.
What is the Pomodoro technique?
The neuromodulators that affects social life and risk-taking behavior.
What is Serotonin?
Feelings of discomfort involving something you'd rather not be doing--discomfort that can actually show up in the brain as feelings of physical pain.
This testing technique tells you, begin with a hard question then move onto an easier one if after a mintue you feel stumped.
In the __________ mode, the brain makes random connections in a relaxed fashion.
What is Diffuse Mode?
The neuromodulator that signals in relation to unexpected reward.
What is Dopamine?
The relaxed state your mind enters when you are performing common and habitual tasks.
What is the Zombie state?
the most important question on test checklist that will negate all others.
What is adequate sleep.
(True or False) does not need to be posed as a question.
Sleeping helps the brain form new synapses (neural connections).
Brain connectivity is dynamic (that is, it changes), not static.
True
The neuromodulator that affects focused learning and attention.
What is Acetylcholine?
The process whenever you reactivate a memory, the memory changes.
It is even possible to implant false memories, which at this stage in our technological capability appear indistinguishable from old ones, by suggestion and imagination, especially in children who have vivid imaginations.
What is reconsolidation?
This chemical is released while taking a test.
What is cortisol?