Neuromyths
It is better described as a preference.
What are learning styles?
Descartes proposed this model as a way of understanding how we interact with the world.
What is mind/body dualism?
This activity helps to 'light up" your brain.
What is play?
The two primary jobs of the brain.
What are survival and body-budgeting?
He founded the idea of the, "Children's Garden."
Who is Froebel?
Sorry, I'm a left-brained person.
What is hemispheric dominance?
Thorndike's rule for students being prepared to learn.
What is the Law of Readiness?
The process of standing in someone else's shoes?
What is empathy?
This part of the neuron receives messages from other neurons.
What are dendrites?
His tragic accident gave us new insights to brain functions.
Who was Phineas Gage?
My intelligence is more of an interpersonal and natural one.
What is MI Theory?
Components of Dewey's Four Natural Tendencies of How Children Learn.
What are Inquiry, Discovery, Creation, and Performance?
This region of your brain is critical for emotional processing, executive functions, and impulse control.
What is the pre-frontal cortex?
This neurotransmitter is released in moments of stress.
What is cortisol?
This is the accepted cutoff for an intervention to demonstrate statistical significance.
What is p = .05?
This program emphasizes the use of regular coordinated activity to improve hemispheric communication.
What is Brain Gym?
Vygotsky believed this was the learning space for student intellectual growth.
What is the Zone of Proximal Development?
These two components of your nervous system work in a push/pull fashion.
What are the sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems?
This combination of two processes allow for messages to be passed from neuron to neuron.
What are electrical and chemical?
This region of the brain is a critical component of the retention of short-term memories.
What is the hippocampus?
This demonstrates the neuromyth of the fixed brain architecture is false.
What is plasticity?
John Watson took this practice to an extreme level.
What is operant conditioning?
A cause of stress, but not a stress sub-category.
What is anxiety?
This can also be referred to as the bark of the brain.
A process that strengthens the connection between neurons, increasing the signal transmission between them to make tasks easier and more fluid.
What is long-term potentiation?