MEMORY ACTION STEP #2:
 BRAIN NAMES FORM
        You can take this opportunity to compare your choices for the names of the brain parts and functions on the Quiz Form at Memory Action Step #1 with the names on this screen or the printout sheet:
    WHAT ARE THE NAMES OF YOUR BRAIN'S 15 MAIN ORGANIC PARTS?

    BRAIN FACTS -- ANSWERS

      Essential Note: [Your hypothalamus contains your "amygdala," which is an almond-shaped organ that is the size of an almond nut. Your amygdala is not shown in this diagram because it is so small! Despite your amygdala's small size, it has a vital role to play in managing your fear and anxiety responses to perceived threats. Your amygdala's crucial evolutionary survival function will be explained in detail at other links on this website.]

      To enable you to have complete self-control, you must understand how your brain and body work together to create your SELF. Knowing the five main functional areas of your brain, and the way your behavior is influenced and coordinated by those brain functions, can give you more conscious "self-control" over your thoughts and feelings and memories as long as you memorize the essential brain facts and ideas --- and keep your brain healthy!
      WHAT ARE THE FUNCTIONS OF YOUR BRAIN'S 5 MAIN ORGANIC REGIONS?
        [1] Your CEREBRAL CORTEX is involved in your perceptual awareness and other cognitive functions, where your recognition and interpretation of sensory stimuli is based chiefly on your memory processes. This results in new insights, intuition, or knowledge gained by the simple act of perceiving life with your FIVE senses.

        [2] Your PREFRONTAL CORTEX is involved in your conscious thinking processes, especially when you make choices by thinking about why you do the things that you do!

        [3] Your LIMBIC SYSTEM is involved in the expression of your instincts and feeling processes, including your many moods, since it includes your hypothalamus and your amygdala.

        [4] Your CEREBELLUM is involved in your posture and many coordinated movements.

        [5] Your BRAINSTEM controls your body's most basic unconscious life-sustaining functions, including your breathing and heartbeat.

      Next, you can print this page and compare the names on this page with your answers on the Quiz form at Action Step #1 in order to make corrections, if necessary. Then you can underline or highlight the names of the main parts of your brain whose functions you would like to remember longer or learn more about.

      Now you can use the "spaced-repetition" memory technique, in combination with the proven "Look, Snap, and Connect" method of fast memorization adapted from the book, The Memory Prescription (by Gary Small at UCLA in his "14 Day Plan to Keep Your Brain and Body Young"), in order to learn the brain definitions easily and quickly:

        (1) LOOK --- You must pay attention to what you want to learn! In this educational exercise, you need to know what brain parts are involved in your self-awareness and where they are located in relation to each other:

          You can slow down, take notice and focus on what you want to remember. Consciously absorb details and meanings related to the location and shape of the brain parts by looking deliberately at each part and imagining that the diagram is a drawing of your own brain.

        (2) SNAP --- You can also create mental snapshots of the images and words of related brain parts and functions. You can notice the size of each part and write down some questions that you may have about what parts the lines are actually pointing to and which surround the part in focus :

          You can consciously create mental snapshots by visualizing the text and spatial relationships of the individual brain parts to each other so you will firmly fix the information that you wish to remember in your mind . Add details to give your imaginary "snaps" personal meanings in order to make them easier to learn and easier to recall later.

        (3) CONNECT --- Finally, you can link your mental snapshots of the brain diagram together in the most practical orthe most fantastical way possible:

          Strategically combine or "associate" the images-to-be-remembered in a chain of "memory pictures." You can start with the first image, which is associated with the second, and the second with the third, and so forth. Be sure the first image helps you recall the reason for remembering the order of the chain of images.

      You can make the learning process more efficient: (1) by repeatedly sub-vocalizing the particular words and phrases of their names and definitions; or (2) by repeatedly saying them out loud; or (3) by dramatically exaggerating the sounds of the words until you can "visualize" their associations or "see" the images of the pictures and words in your mind, whenever you want without looking at the printouts or the computer monitor.

      Next, you can choose Memory Action Step #3 at the next link to see how your brain's main parts interact to make it possible for you to think and feel and move around!
Go to Memory Action Step #3: Brain Definitions Form