Executive Function
Brain Skills or cognitive processes that everyone needs and uses to complete tasks in our daily lives.
What is executive functioning?
What are active reading strategies?
Use abbreviations, don't write complete sentences, one fact per line, omit vowels from works.
The percentage difference between what we remember when we read vs what we remember when you teach other--which make memory techniques essential.
What is 10% and 95%?
Worshipping, praying, reading God's word, living in community and asking for help.
What is a biblical way to handle stress?
Name 5 different executive functioning skills.
What are planning, organization, time managment, task initiation, working memory, metacognition, self-control, sustained attention, flexibility and perseverance?
What is PQRST?
Preview, question, read, state and test
What do you ignore when note-taking?
neatness, spellings, sentences
Three ways we store information.
What is immediate or sensory memory, short term or working memory, and long-term memory?
Name a verse that can help you when you are feeling stressed.
John 10:10, 1 Thes. 5:18, Phil 4: 7-8, Matt 11:28, Ps. 55:22, 1 Peter 5:6-7 Or any verse that would be helpful
A person procrastinates, has trouble focusing on work after taking a break, doesn't know where to start on a project. This person needs help in____________?
What is task initiation?
Parts of a plot. Name at least 4 of the 5.
Introduction, Setting, exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, resolution
Name 3 techniques for note-taking.
Block form, outlining, Cornell method, mind-mapping,
Examples of using acrostics, acronymns, mnemonic devices to remember information.
Mrs. Progar will decide if you answer is correct since there are too many examples to record them here. (HAHA)
Name 2 physical things you can do to help you when stressed or to avoid being stressed.
Get enough sleep, eat healthy, exercise, take a deep breath.
Self-control involves two types of control; blurting out answers if one of them, struggling to persevere through homework or changing moods quickly is the other.
What are response inhibiltion an emotional control?
Useful as a study and lecture guide. Helps you retain infor better. Helps creates a sample test.
Why use PQRST technique?
What you do within 24 hours after note-taking especially after a lecture?
Name 10 different memory techniques.
You many pick any 10 off of the handouts given to you. Mrs. Progar will look on the handouts as you name them. (You will get 100 points per technique. Answers named within 1 minutes. The other team may earn points for any additional techniques they can name that you did not name until the total is 10)
Name 2 ideas other than physical things you can do to help you when stressed.
Think positive, use study skills strategies, listen to music, give yourself a break, talk with God, family, friends, laugh
When you are able to adapt to new situations and deal with changes and make adjusts along with way. You can face obstacles and set backs and adapt.
What is flexibility or mental flexibility?
Breaking information down into small sections allowing the reader to comprehend and retain information more easily. It makes it easier to keep information into short term memory and improves reading comprehension.
What is chunking?
150 words per minutes vs 50 words per minute
What is the speed in which people speak vs write which makes note-taking strategies important to know?
The human brain has the ability known as neuroplasticity that allows it to form new _______pathways as we learn to get information from sensory memory into long term memory.
What are neural pathways?
A powerful technique to help you unwind, relieve stress, and even fall asleep. Instead of focusing on your anxious, fearful images, this idea expands your ability to focus on calming and restful images.
What is visualization?