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This is the oldest and deepest area of the brain,

sometimes called the “reptilian brain.”

What is the BRAINSTEM?

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The main function of this register is to screen out useless sensory input.

What is SENSORY REGISTER?

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WORKING MEMORY hasa functional limit. How many pieces of informationcan the average adult manage at one time?

What is SEVEN?

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These kinds of exams onlytest RECOGNITION—not RECALL skills.

What are MULTIPLE-CHOICE exams?

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Sometimes called the “old mammalian brain,”

this area is the seat of emotions and sensory

information.

What is the LIMBIC SYSTEM?

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“Immediate memory” and “working memory” are the

two components of thistype of memory.

What is SHORT-TERM MEMORY?

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This is where the brain takes multiple items and considersthem a single entity (as a way of bypassing the limitationsof working memory).

What is CHUNKING?

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When teachers do this, it sends a signal to slower information

retrievers that they can abort the process.

What is CALLING on the FIRST HANDS to be raised?

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This part of the braincontrols thinking, memory,

and speech.

What is the CEREBRUM?

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This short-term memory component is where weput information untilwe decide what to do

with it.

What is IMMEDIATE MEMORY?

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On average, adults can processitems intently in working memory

for about ___ minutes beforebecoming fatigued.

What is THIRTY?

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This is WHEN information movesfrom short-term to long-term memory.

What is DURING SLEEP?

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The technical name for nerve cells.

What are NEURONS?

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This component of short-term memory is where we

build, take apart, or reworkideas for eventual storage.

What is WORKING MEMORY?

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According to the Primacy-Recencyeffect, students are most likely to

remember these portions of a lecture.

What are the FIRST and LAST portions?

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Learning psychologists now speak ofcreating “multiple learning pathways”

instead of this older expression.

What is ACCOMMODATE DIVERSE LEARNING STYLES?

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Teens are slow to controltheir emotions becauseof late development inthis part of the brain.

What is the FRONTAL LOBE?

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These two criteria largely determine whether information is stored in long-term memory.

What are SENSE and RELEVANCE?

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Janet Zadina’s memorable phrasedescribing the learning process.

What is “FIRE until its WIRED!”

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This connector gives females bettercommunication BETWEEN brain

hemispheres whereas malesgenerally function more efficientlyWITHIN a particular hemisphere.

What is the CORPUS CALLOSUM?