What is the recommended number of hours of sleep teens should get each night?
100
You are born with at least 100 billion of these kinds of cells
What are neurons?
100
A watch, a planner, and a time budget
What are things that can help you manage time?
100
It's available when you need it, contains all the materials you need, has adequate light, a comfortable temperature and is free from interruptions
What are characteristics of a good study space?
100
Your adviser, teachers and coaches
Who are some of your allies at Hopkins?
200
You should have this every morning so your brain has enough energy to function well
What is breakfast?
200
This lobe helps you organize knowledge and make sense of it by controlling attention, judgment, planning, problem solving and time management
What is the frontal lobe?
200
It's what you do when you put off tasks or assignments that are unpleasant or difficult
What is procrastination?
200
Cell phones, Instant Messaging, television, loud conversation or loud music
What are distractions to studying?
200
Doing this when you learn something new builds stronger and closer connections between neurons
What is practice?
300
Not getting enough of this causes you to lose the chance to store information in the brain and affects your ability to remember things
What is not getting enough sleep?
300
Neurons grow these fibers whenever you listen to, write about, talk about or practice something
What are dendrites?
300
25%
What is the amount of extra time you should allocate as a buffer when you plan tasks?
300
Plan specific times for studying, review notes before beginning an assignment, try to study at the same times each day
What are some study habits of successful students?
300
Making these, and getting feedback so you can correct them, helps you build stronger connections in your brain
What are mistakes?
400
Two things to avoid if you want to keep your brain healthy.
What are caffeine and junk food?
400
Stress, sleep deprivation, hormones, smoking, alcohol, drug abuse and poor nutrition all have a negative impact on this brain function
What is memory?
400
Assignments are poorly done, later or incomplete. You feel stressed and inadequate.
What are the results of procrastination?
400
1 hour blocks with 5 to 10 minute breaks
What is a good way to chunk study time?
400
It is the language center of the brain
What is the temporal lobe?
500
When you become stressed, this hormone makes it harder for neurotransmitters to carry messages across the synapses in your brain
What is adrenaline?
500
It receives incoming sensory stimuli and maintains focus or spatial attention
What is the parietal lobe?
500
It includes the things you have to do, like sleep, homework, and family responsibilities AND things you want to do, like sports, chill time and alone time.