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WorksheetsLearning Rewires the Brain Article
Total questions: 12
Worksheet time: 9mins
If you practice a skill it will...
eventually become impossible to do.
not make it easier.
make it easier and will change the brain.
be easily forgotten, despite what people say.
When do you brains stop developing?
Our brains stop developing as teenagers.
Our brains never stop developing.
Our brains stop developing in our 20s.
Our brains stop developing in out 50s.
Which part of the brain helps you store memories?
Prefrontal cortex
Cortex
Core Memory Machine
Hippocampus
What did Nathan Spreng study?
He studied studies to see which parts of the brains were active while learning.
He studied studies to see how scientists studied their studies.
He studied how to make a PET scan machine.
He studied the way the blood moved in the brain at the presence of magnets, such as like in an MRI machine.
How do our brain cells talk to one another?
The communicate with fire.
They do not.
The communicate with chemical messengers.
They communicate with cellular body movements, such as facial expressions.
When we learn a task communication between cells becomes
more difficult.
less difficult.
less likely to be needed.
less audible by scientists with a stethoscope.
Why can a bad night's sleep be bad for out memory?
Lack of sleep kills off many brain cells.
It makes our brain unable to make fire.
It prevents our brain from storing new memories as we sleep.
It depletes the amount of chemicals in our brain that allows our brain to communicate properly.
When we are sleeping out brain cells
fire in reverse
fire with a greatly increased frequency.
stop firing.
no not differ in the way they fire.
Neurons make up the majority of cells in the brain.
True
False
What is one of the roles of the myelin sheath in the brain?
It slows down brain signals.
The are not part of the brain.
It acts as traffic lights so signals don't bump into one another.
It speeds brain signals along.
Is it better to learn information slowly or quickly?
Slowly
Quickly
Where do "Aha!" moments come from?
It is the result of a steady accumulation of information.
It is the result of cramming for a test.
It is the result of your teacher explaining something to you for the 100th time.
It is the result of a disconnection of cells in the brain.
