The brain has limited capacity for multi-tasking. While it can switch between tasks rapidly, it can only focus deeply on one task at a time. Trying to do two attention-demanding tasks simultaneously usually results in poorer performance on both tasks.
Z Score,T Score, Percential Rank and Box Plot Graph
Boom Day 2
1. Using the BRAIN BINGO sheet given to you, fill in the
blanks with an assortment of the words below—
your choice!
Memory Stress Brain Sleep
Neurons Nutrition Tummy Attention
Study Memory Activate Learning
Information Katniss Dendrites
Dreaming Energy Hemisphere Laughter
Gale Potential Class Human
Primacy-Recency Four Multi-tasking
Unconscious Prefrontal BOOM
2. BRAIN QUIZ!
How are the
answers
usable in
YOUR LIFE?
Adapted with permission from Tracey Tokuhama-Espinosa, PhD
3. True or False?
1. Past information influences how we learn something new.
2. Sleep is important for learning.
3. People judge each others’ faces and tones of voice
immediately and almost unconsciously.
4. Nutrition impacts learning.
5. Some people are more right-brained, and some are more
left-brained.
6. Attention + Memory = Learning?
7. Stress impacts learning.
8. Students can pay attention for a full class period.
9. The brain can hold more than 10 items in its working memory
at any one time.
10. The brain cannot multi-task.
4. True or false?
Past information
influences how we
learn something
new.
6. TRUE!
Connecting
new information
to prior
knowledge
facilitates
learning.
7. True or false?
People judge each other’s
faces and tones of voice
immediately and almost
unconsciously.
8. TRUE!
The human brain judges
others’ faces and tones
of voices for threat levels
in a rapid and often
unconscious way,
influencing the way
information from these
sources is perceived.
16. (Oversimplified, but…)TRUE!
Without ATTENTION and MEMORY
there is no LEARNING.
To learn
something
new means
you have to
pay attention
to it as well as
remember it.
