It weighs a little more than 3 pounds, about the size of a small grapefruit, shaped like a walnut, and can fit in the palm of your hand.
What is the brain
100
The neurons in this brain make many more connections than those in adults.
What is the child's brain?
100
The brain is constantly scanning its environment for stimuli that can focus its' attention to spring into action.
What is the brain as a novelty seeker?
100
All the information coming into the information processing theory.
What is senses?
100
These are two major types of memory that are found in long term memory.
What are declarative and nondeclarative?
200
Is found in the front of the brain and is called the control center as it deals with planning and thinking.
What is the frontal lobe?
200
As the child approaches puberty, the pace slackens and two other processes begin.
What are connections the brain finds useful become permanent, those not useful are eliminated.
200
Our genetic predispostion for survival directs the brain to focus on just one item at a time, cognitve loss can occur during this activity.
What is multi-tasking?
200
All incoming sensory information (except smell) is sent first to this part of the brain.
What is the Thalamus?
200
Remembering names, facts, music, and objects is processed by these two parts of the brain.
What are the hippocampus and cerebrum?
300
Trauma to the frontal lobe can cause permanent changes to these changes.
What is behavioral and personality.
300
Important periods in which the young brain responds to certain types of input from its environment to create or consilidate neural highways.
What are windows of opportunities?
300
During an interruption of a specific task (studying) this part of memory will lose information.
What is the working memory?
300
This process blocks repetitive stimuli, allowing your conscious brain to focus on more important things.
What is the sensory register?
300
The learning of motor and cognitive skills and remembering how to do things (Procedural) is this type of memory.
What is nondeclarative memory?
400
This system houses four parts that are important to learning and memory.
What are the thalamus, hypothalamus, hypocampus, and the amygdala?
400
The terrible twos demonstrates a struggle between two systems.
What are the emotional and rational systems?
400
Bauerlein (2011) suggests that successfully reading complex tests demands these skills that wired students may not be developing.
What are looking for literal and inferred meanings, maintain a train of thought and to hold enough information in working memory, an openness for deep thinking.
400
Short term memory includes these two types of memory.
What are immediate and working memory?
400
A common phenomenon that states during a learning episode, we remember best that which comes first, second best that which comes last, and least that which comes just past the middle.
What is the primacy-recency effect?
500
Recent studies indicate that the role of this part of the brain has been underestimated. Damage slows down and simplifies movement and also could affect some cognitive processes like fine tuning.
What is the cerebellum?
500
Knowing this, it seems illogical that many schools still wait to start new language instruction in the middle school or high.
What is the window of opportunity for language occurs in the early years
500
Studies show that increased physical activity leads to improved academic performance because it encourages the growth of these critical parts of the brain.
What are neurons?
500
This belief system is our view of the world around us and how it works.
What is the Cognitive Belief System?
500
This is an effective way of enlarging working memory's capacity and for helping the learner make associations that establish meaning.