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educational psychology

How Your Brain Works: The Role of Emotion in Learning

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In order to maximize learning, the student’s stress level needs to be in the Goldilocks zone! (“just right”)…

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2010-03-24 How Your Brain Works

How Your Brain Works: State-Dependent Learning

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Did you know… that you remember things better when you study and practice them under the same conditions that you expect to perform them?

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2010-03-23 How Your Brain Works

How Your Brain Works: Habits

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Every thought, belief, and action that you repeat over and over turns into a habit… an unconscious, automatic behavior…

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2010-03-22 How Your Brain Works

How Your Brain Works: Consolidation

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Consolidation is the process by which short-term memories are transformed into long-term memories…

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2010-03-18 How Your Brain Works

How Your Brain Works: Soak Time

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Your brain is like a sponge in three ways…

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2010-03-13 How Your Brain Works

How Your Brain Works: The Computer Model Myth

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Let’s dispel a widespread and extremely poisonous myth about your brain…

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2010-03-03 How Your Brain Works

How Your Brain Works: The Learning Mystique

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Surprisingly little is known about how our brains learn and remember a phone number, a friend’s face, a familiar melody, a complex motor skill, or a shocking event…

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2010-03-02 How Your Brain Works

How Your Brain Works: What is Learning?

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LEARNING is…

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2010-03-01 How Your Brain Works

How Your Brain Works

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Isn’t it curious (and so very unfortunate) that we all go to school for years and years without ever learning how our brain, the very organ that we are trying to change in the process, works?

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2010-03-01 How Your Brain Works, The Basics
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