Transcript Brain Jeopardy Game

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Retention
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What is the BRAINSTEM?
This is the oldest and
deepest area of the brain,
sometimes called the
“reptilian brain.”
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What is SENSORY REGISTER?
The main function of this
register is to screen out
useless sensory input.
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What is SEVEN?
WORKING MEMORY has
a functional limit. How
many pieces of information
can the average adult
manage at one time?
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What are MULTIPLE-CHOICE exams?
These kinds of exams only
test RECOGNITION—
not RECALL skills.
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What is the LIMBIC SYSTEM?
Sometimes called the
“old mammalian brain,”
this area is the seat of
emotions and sensory
information.
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What is SHORT-TERM MEMORY?
“Immediate memory” and
“working memory”are the
two components of this
type of memory.
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What is CHUNKING?
This is where the brain takes
multiple items and considers
them a single entity (as a way
of bypassing the limitations
of working memory).
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What is CALLING on the FIRST HANDS to be raised?
When teachers do this, it sends a
signal to slower information
retrievers that they can abort
the process.
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What is the CEREBRUM?
This part of the brain
controls thinking, memory,
and speech.
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What is IMMEDIATE MEMORY?
This short-term memory
component is where we
put information until
we decide what to do
with it.
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What is THIRTY?
On average, adults can process
items intently in working memory
for about ___ minutes before
becoming fatigued.
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What is DURING SLEEP?
This is WHEN information moves
from short-term to long-term memory.
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What are NEURONS?
The technical name
for nerve cells.
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What is WORKING MEMORY?
This component of shortterm memory is where we
build, take apart, or rework
ideas for eventual storage.
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What are the FIRST and LAST portions?
According to the Primacy-Recency
effect, students are most likely to
remember these portions of a lecture.
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What is ACCOMMODATE DIVERSE LEARNING STYLES?
Learning psychologists now speak of
creating “multiple learning pathways”
instead of this older expression.
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What is the FRONTAL
LOBE?
Teens are slow to control
their emotions because
of late development in
this part of the brain.
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What are SENSE and RELEVANCE?
These two criteria largely
determine whether information
is stored in long-term memory.
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What is “FIRE until its WIRED!”
Janet Zadina’s memorable phrase
describing the learning process.
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What is the CORPUS CALLOSUM?
This connector gives females better
communication BETWEEN brain
hemispheres whereas males
generally function more efficiently
WITHIN a particular hemisphere.
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