ALPHABETICAL BRAIN™
HUMANIST FAMILY BRAIN STUDY
HUMANIST BRAIN STUDY GUIDE
Ten Assumptions to Remember
Ten basic humanistic assumptions about the nature of reality and importance of brain study:
[1] When you decide to spend the time and energy required to learn how your brain functions, you will be able to improve your brain's fitness as well as your mind's performance in all future situations. You can make transformative life decisions, including using your time more wisely and making better choices between good and evil.
In addition, brain scientists have discovered that what you want to remember determines the type of memory resources that your brain uses to store new information in your long-term memory system.
Since the brain ideas and their definitions are factual ideas about your body, the meanings are remembered mainly in your brain's semantic and autobiographic memory resources, which are connected to your long-term memory system.
[2] The FRONT SIDE of each brain flash card consists of a brain diagram and the letter or letters related to the brain idea, which is illustrated by the brain diagram.
Also the front side contains a question to clarify the brain idea because questions or interrogatives are known to help ideas stick in declarative memory. Your declarative memory is a type of semantic memory, which is a part of your long-term memory system.
The BACK SIDE of each brain flash card consists of either the same brain image or a different one that provides an additional visual perspective about the idea.
Each brain idea is defined and explained in the most concise way possible.
Also each brain diagram illustrates how brain structures are associated or connected to each other to produce brain functions, so functional relationships can be imagined by the simple models.
In addition, since you already know the English alphabet, and you already know how to focus your attention, you can learn each of the new factual brain ideas faster by using the handy infinity symbol.
The infinity symbol serves as a flash card flipper and is located under each flash card for quick navigation back and forth, allowing you to flip each flash card over and over again.
It provides an effortless opportunity for you to repeatedly expose yourself to the new brain ideas that you need to learn to become brain savvy.
Also by using the right arrow, you can go forward to the next brain flash card from the back side by clicking (or tapping for tablets) on the right arrow which is always on the lower right side of all of the backs of the brain flash cards, labeled NEXT.
Or you can return to the list of all 15 of the free sample brain flash cards by clicking (or tapping for tablets) on the left arrow, which is always on the lower left side of all of the brain flash cards, labeled LIST.
[3] In addition to the 15 free sample brain flash cards, there are two more types of files linked to each brain flash card. They include the "Details" files, which link essential details to each of the 15 brain flash cards, and the "Fact Checker" files, which link authorative reference sources to each of the 15 brain ideas.
The reference sources include recently published books and articles used by the webmaster to edit and compile the latest brain information into an organized linguistic context that is easy to access and understand.
[4] The self-directed learning process emphasized on this website is the classic spaced-repetition method of memorization.
It depends upon you scheduling special times to repeat your focus on the particular structures and functions of your brain that you need to know in order to master the complete sequence of the 15 free brain ideas in the Humanist Family Brain Survey, one brain idea at a time.
The scheduled sequence of exposures to specific brain ideas and diagrams that you choose can help your mind create associations among the key brain-related words that you are studying.
The more repetitions that you do, the stronger the neural signaling will be in your brain's neural pathways. This is the natural learning process that you can use anytime you want to remember things permanently in your long-term memory system.
The purpose of the self-guided timed exposures to a specific brain flash card is to associate the new brain idea with some of the letters and the sounds that are already stored in your long-term memory system.
This is an effective way to remember the new brain information, including both the brain names and the declarative statements related to each of the definitions, if you conscientiously link them to some previous memories already in your long-term memory system.
These new associations can include the specific letter combinations of the English language used as alphabetical memory codes or "cues" on this website to symbolize each brain idea for quick memorization purposes.
[5] Before you start your serious study of the brain flash cards, it is important to realize that writing down the names on the list of the 15 sample brain names on the first Survey Quiz can help you remember the 15 brain ideas faster than if you merely read them.
If you have Adobe Reader installed on your computer or mobile device, then you can use the first printable pdf form in the Humanist Family Brain Survey file. The pdf file is only accessible to you for your own educational purposes.
However, writing down the list of brain ideas at the beginning of your brain study is another good way of previewing what you will be learning.
Also by writing down your summary of the definition of each brain idea on the list, you will be able to continue to refer to the list of names and definitions as you recall and recite and review the names and definitions of each part of your brain.
You will be discovering the purpose and function of each brain idea as you progress through the 15 brain flash cards in the free sample.
This important educational technique of simply writing the name and definitions of the brain ideas down on paper as part of your study plan is a proven memory booster.
It will give you a stronger mental scaffolding for capturing details through categorizing or chunking the new details into your long-term memory system.
This immersive multi-sensory learning process allows information to be transferred more quickly from your working memory in your prefrontal cortex to your long-term memory system that is located in the hippocampus part of your limbic system's intricate emotional center.
Also it has been demonstrated in the past year that it is more efficient to hold about four or fewer items in your short-term memory at one time before they are captured by your working memory and later added to your long-term memory system. This new research finding differs from the old idea that about seven items could be usefully stored in your short-term memory resources for a few seconds at a time.
[6] You can increase your learning speed by becoming both relaxed and attentive at the same time. To do this, you need to create a sense of focused attention, which means that you need to deactivate your parasympathetic nervous system.
To get ready to learn, you can take a few deep breaths and use mindfulness skills (meditation practices) to achieve a calm attentive personal learning environment.
By injecting more fresh oxygen into your brain with several deep breaths, you will be able to remember better when you think about the 15 brain ideas and their definitions.
[7] Next, you can write down the appropriate matching brain names to a list of the memory codes provided in the second pretest, which is also printable, on the Humanist Family Brain Survey file. Again it is important to note that the pdf form is only accessible to you for your own educational purposes.
If you follow through and do the writing part as recommended together with filling in the words on the online printable files, you will be involved in multi-sensory immersion learning.
This proven learning process involves using several senses at the same time, such as sight and touch together in order to understand and remember a brain idea better.
The alphabetical memory codes, which are associated with each part of your brain and each brain function, can be thought of as memory "cues," which can assist you in remembering, since those language units of alphabetical letters are already stored in your long-term memory system.
Since the memory codes already have thousands of neural pathway connections throughout your cerebral cortex, they can easily connect the new brain ideas to the memory codes and store them in your long-term memory system so they can be recalled more quickly by your conscious mind.
The more you choose to repeatedly associate the factual brain ideas on the brain flash cards with each other, the more integrated and synergistic the new brain information will become in your long-term memory system.
And the more you integrate the new brain ideas in your memory system, the easier it will be for your working memory in your prefrontal cortex to activate them for making important decisions.
[8] To manage your time better during your brain study, you can keep a written record of the time you devote to your brain study sessions by using the printable 30 Day Timetable Memorization Chart at the bottom of the Humanist Family Brain Survey file.
If you use the timetable memorization chart to record your brain study sessions for a few days, you will notice a pattern of your best times for brain study.
Knowing your brain study pattern can motivate you to continue your brain study until you develop the habit of thinking unconsciously about your own new brainpower potential.
You can find the link to the timetable memorization chart at the bottom of the Humanist Family Brain Survey.
[9] Your sense of self or core personal identity is likely to change when you learn the significance of the new brain-based critical thinking and reading skills in the process of learning how your many brain functions work together to make your consciousness possible.
When you have mastered the 15 brain ideas in the free sample, you can begin to appreciate the value of 85 more brain ideas if you could integrate them into your active conscious working memory resources.
The new brain ideas in the entire sequence of 100 contained on the Alphabetical Brain™ Vocabulary App can have an enormous stabilizing impact on your consciousness and sense of self when they are safely saved in your long-term memory system.
To repeat, when the new brain-related words that describe the brain ideas are properly memorized, they can become a part of your active vocabulary. This means they can be activated effortlessly from your working memory resources whenever you think the brain ideas can help you solve problems or save time.
After you have memorized the brain names and functions, they will become habits that will upgrade your thinking and reading skills, since you will have mastered real words that signify real things that will connect you to reality!
[10] One of the worst enemies of clear thinking and self-directed learning is information overload, which is toxic to your brain if it is not managed carefully by you.
Many studies have demonstrated that the constant distractions of the mass media, fueled by the entertainment industry, on a "24/7" basis, can produce excessive distress in your life due to its never ending visual and auditory assaults on your brain and nervous system.
The mass media is constantly bombarding your brain and nervous system because advertisers want your attention and the businesses they work for all want as much of your money as possible.
Therefore, it is wise for you to learn time-management skills and self-control skills related especially to protecting yourself from the worst aspects of the mass media.
You will learn that you can manage your time more efficiently and train your brain to remain calm but attentive when studying about your brain or any other subject that you are curious about.
If you want to achieve realistic goals that will produce maximum happiness and fulfilment as you make plans to solve problems, you will discover that a mindset of mindfullness mixed in with time management skills are great resources to keep you focused for success.
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