The Brain
Brain cells are also known as
What are Neurons?
Communication that occurs through the release of neurotransmitters into the space between the axon and dendrite.
What is synapse?
A series of shorter study sessions distributed over several days.
What is Distributed Practice?
A students reviews notes taken right after class
What is the principle of consolidation?
A device that helps enhance memory
What is a mnemonic device?
If one were to take part in the process of "the recall of specifics and universals, the recall of methods and processes, or the recall of a pattern, structure, or setting", they would be using this.
What is "Knowledge"?
The level of Blooms Taxonomy where questions may include words such as "Use," "Solve," or "Illustrate"
Applying or Application
Your primary job as a college student is to
What is process information
Every neuron is made of three major region regions
What is known as
Cell body or soma
Axon
Dendrites
Part of the brain s where executive functions such as judgment, analysis, synthesis, organizing, problem-solving, planning, and creativity take place.
What is the prefrontal Lobe?
The brain prioritizes by meaning, value and relevance. To remember it must value and relevance in your life.
What is interest?
A student reads the chapter summary, studies the review questions and examines pictures and charts before she reads.
What are the learning principles of intent to remember, selectivity and visualization?
An invented combination of letters, with each letter acting as a cue to an idea you need to remember
What is an Acronym?
This taxonomy element means for someone to engage in “putting together of elements and parts so as to form a whole.”
What is "Synthesis"?
The highest level of the updated Blooms Taxonomy
What is Creating?
If you analyze these in light of Blooms Taxonomy you can conclude that they primarily address lower level thinking skills.
What is learning principles?
Part of the brain where information is integrated
What is the cell body?
The part of the brain which instinctively reacts to without thinking it through, by ignoring it, fighting it, or avoiding it.
What is the lower automatic brain also known as the reactive brain?
Saying ideas aloud in your own words strengthens synaptic connections and gives you feedback. The more feedback you get the faster and more accurate your learning is
What is Recitation?
A student is reading their textbook, before going on to the next paragraph , she covers the text and asks herself questions in the margin, and says the answer out loud in her own words.
What are the learning principles of recitation, interest and intent to remember?
Makes routing decisions based on emotions
What is the amygdala?
This framework was originally developed as a method of classifying educational goals for student performance evaluation.
What is "Blooms Taxonomy"?
Knowing and understanding how to problem solve and making decisions while having a clear understanding on the subject.
What is the evaluation process?
Higher-order thinking skills involve
What is analysis, synthesis, and evaluation.
A long single fiber that sends information
What is the axon?
The first filter that information from your senses passes through.
What is the reticular activating system (RAS)
Your attitude has much to do whether you remember something or not. Key factor is a positive attitude and believing that you will get it right the first time.
What is intent to remember?
A student is studying for a psychology test on the anatomy of the brain cell and functions, the student tries to make mental pictures of what the cell and fuctions looks like and makes connections to things he has already studied.
What are the principle of visualization, basic background and interest.
An invented sentence in which the first letter of each word is a cue to an idea you need to remember
What is Acrostic?
This section found within the original taxonomy is said to represent “judgments about the value of material and methods for given purposes.”
What is "Evaluation"?
Understanding what you have learned and being able to explain or teach it to others.
What is the comprehension process?
This process parallels the lower-order thinking skills. In a driving analogy,
gathering might include reading the road signs or writing down directions.
What is Gathering?
Minute twigs or web-like branches, which receive information.
What are dendrites?
Three major elements that control where new information goes
What is the reticular activating systems (RAS), the limbic and neurotransmitter dopamine?
You use this technique by making a mental picture to remember something. By using this principle you use a completely different part of your brain than you do by reading or listening.
What is Visualization?
Making flashcards of terms, people, places and dates
What are the learning principle of meaningful organization,interest and intent to remember
Links the new sensory input to memories of your past knowledge that is already stored in your long- term to make relational memories
What is hippocampus?
In the new Taxonomy, this section of the pyramid means for a student to produce original work.
What is to "Create"?
Knowing the information and being able to recall it
What is the knowledge process?
This involves discovering meaning in information by reflection, we examine new information.
What is analyzing?
Your brain works on
What is electrochemical energy?
Receives messages from other cells
What are dendrites?
These are ways to process or transfer information into long-term memory and strengthen connections that allow for learning.
What are Learning Principles?
Recalling something you already know about a subject and placing new
information in the same brain file as the old information, you will find that
the new information is easier to retrieve and remember.
What is the principle of Association?
Learning depends on the strength of the connection combined with
What are neurotransmitters?
In this section of the Bloom's taxonomy, this term means for a student to explain ideas or concepts.
What is to "Understand"?
Using information you have learned to solve problems.
What is the application process?
When we as learners convert comprehension into ideas, hypotheses, plans, and actions.
What is synthesis or evaluating?
Directs activity inside the cell
What is the nucleus?
Communication through the release of chemical substances into these SPACES between the axon and dendrites.
What is a synapse?
These principles focus on starting or creating connections so you can better remember information by connecting it to what you already know.
What is interest, intent to remember, and basic background?
Prior knowledge and understanding you have about a topic or issue helps with learning new material.
What is Basic Understanding?
As you read a textbook, notice that the author has provided clues and guides as to
what is important by dividing the chapter with major headings, using bold print
and italics, and providing summaries and questions
What is Selectivity?
The level in which you can explain ideas or concepts.
Understanding or Comprehension
Finding patterns and organizing ideas.
What is the analysis process?
When this stage W is reached, the learner becomes a producer of knowledge rather than a receiver.
What is action or creating?
True or false: Your brain can only hold so much information at any given time.
True
Meaningful categories that you can place words into for better memorization.
What is chunks?
Another way to strengthen your neural network is to consciously tie new information in with something you already have stored in your long-term memory.
What is the principle of association?
This principle allows the student to take ownership of new information by allowing time for neuronal pathways to be established.
What is Consolidation?
Common study habit that leads to less info remembered over time & increases test anxiety.
What is cramming?
Responsible for creating Bloom's Taxonomy
Who is Benjamin Bloom?
Being creative and combining common knowledge with new information.
What is the synthesis process?
Name the note taking system that allows you to develop questions based on the information you are reading/
What is the Question in the margin?