WorksheetsLearning How To Learn
Total questions: 16
Worksheet time: 15mins
Why should you space out your learning?
That way you learn more easily because your brain has brakes in between work periods.
To become smarter.
So that your brain doesn't get stressed and tired out.
It allows your dendritic spines more time to grow, allowing you to remember more easily.
What is the best learning style to rely on?
It's all a hoax!
Auditory learning
Visual learning
Kinesthetic (sense of touch) learning
Which questions should you start by doing on the test?
The hardest ones; power through the difficult part.
The easiest ones; boost your self confidence.
Mix them up; do one hard question then an easy one.
Start by the hardest questions; once your stuck do a few easy ones then come back to it.
True or false; action based video games improve your ability to pick up small details and focus better.
True
False
True or false; during exercise it's harder to remember things and focus.
True
False
True or false; taking small breaks of two to three minutes every twenty five minutes while working intensely is helpful.
True
False
True or false; pictures are easier to remember than non picture facts. Example: an image of the school is easier to remember than eighteen squared.
True
False
True or false; staying up later to study helps you know the material better than getting a good sleep (assuming you have already studied a different day)
True
False
What is the best way to help you remember a concept or fact?
Write it down again and again.
Reread it over and over.
Create a visual metaphor
Repeat it inside your head
What is an advantage of learning things slower (having a slower working memory)?
You can hold more things in your mind at once
You find good simplifications that others would otherwise miss
Things stick in your mind better
You don't have to work as hard to understand things, it comes slower but more naturally
True or false; When you sleep your brain "cleans up" information deemed not useful.
True
False
What is the primary reason that procrastinating is NOT a good idea?
It doesn't give you enough time to let your neurons' dendritic spines grow
It get's rid of your neurons' dendritic spines
It stresses you out too much
You end up not handing in your work in time
What are three of the five tricks given by Nelson Dellis to help memorize things?
1 . Focus - pay attention . 2. Practice - you don't master something unless you practice . 3. Picture things - your memory is better at memorizing pictures than it is at facts
1 . Focus - pay attention . 2. Practice - you don't master something unless you practice . 3. Repeat - keep repeating whatever you're memorizing to yourself
Store it - find something to anchor the information to, wether it be your house or your friends name . 2. Practice - you don't master something unless you practice . 3. Repeat - keep repeating whatever you're memorizing to yourself
What is the pomodoro technique?
It's when you set a timer for fifteen minutes and during that time you study hard
It's a technique where you time yourself as you focus and work really hard on something and then you see how long you were able to focus for
It's a way to get yourself engaged with learning by thinking about a problem from different perspectives
You set a timer for twenty five minutes and work hard during that time, then take a quick brake and reward yourself
What's the best way to think of things?
I have to go to school
I have the option to go to school
I get to go to school
I need to go to school
The concept of strengthening neurons can be described by which metaphor?
All of the below
A mental mouse running through paths that widen as he walks through it
A set of "brain links" (chains) getting longer and stronger as you think of something
A puzzle, overtime you add new pieces and can see the whole picture better and can easily recognize the idea
