School Related Stressors
Neuroplasticity/Patterning
Attention
100

Does anxiety related to oral production in class trigger the amygdala to send input to the lower, reactive brain?

Yes, this is a school related stressor 

100

True or False: Patterning refers to the brain's meaningful categorization and organization of sensory data based on relationships or commonalites.

Yes! True (McTighe & Willis, 2019, p. 8)

100

True or False: Schmidt is the primary theorist for attention that is focused on in Ellis's chapter.

True 

200

What kind of behavior do these school-related stressors potentially result in?

Acting out or zoning out behaviors 

200

True or False: The clusters of related information are called puzzle patterns.

False. They are called cognitive frameworks or schemas; named by Jean Piaget in 1957.

200

Name one of the six characteristics of attention

Attention is limited, Attention is selective, Attention is subject to voluntary control, attention controls access to consciousness, attention is essential for the control of action, attention is essential for learning (ellis, 2015, p. 182)

300

Do feelings of isolation or lack of acceptance trigger amygdalae response?

Yes, this is a school-related stressor 

300

What do patterns help humans (and other animals) do?

Patterning helps brains predict and to retrieve information more efficiently. (McTighe & Willis, 2019, p. 9)

300

The main difference between Schmidt's Noticing Hypothesis and Tomlin and Villa's Theory of Attention is...

For Tomlin and Villa, attention can be unconscious. For Smith, attention is conscious. 

400

Does the inability to manage academic and extra curricular responsibilities (jobs, chores, etc.) trigger the amygdala to send a message to the reactive brain?

Yes, this is a school related stressor 

400

True or False: Making correct predictions does not trigger a dopamine response.

False, "Making correct predictions is one of the strongest dopamine elevators"  (McTighe & Willis, 2019, p. 10)

400

True or False: Detection is the cognitive registration of information in short-term memory. 

True. (Ellis, 2015, p. 184)

500

True or False: Student responses to these triggers are completely involuntary lower-brain responses.

True

500

What does prediction have to do with literacy, numeracy and appropriate social-emotional behavior?

The ability to predict is a foundation for all of these skills.  (McTighe & Willis, 2019, p. 9)

500

Another important element of attention is rehearsal. What theorist names this and what are the two types of rehearsal?

Rehearsal is theorized by Robinson (2003) and the two types are maintenance rehearsal and elaborative rehearsal.