chapter 5

Question 1

Brain’s prefrontal cortex

Answer 1

controls your most complex thinking actions - its last and most comprehensive development from around 18-25 years of age.

Question 2

Executive function

Answer 2

is what allows people to perceive possible future consequences of a choice, weigh the pros and cons of the consequences of different choices, and take the risk of putting one to work, based on what seems to offer the greatest reward.

Question 3

What is thinking?

Answer 3

Thinking = Asking questions

Question 4

Metacognition

Answer 4

-A Tool for College and Life Success
-Is the foundation for the kind of self-knowledge and self-management that enables you to perform higher-level thinking skills.
-“thinking about thinking”

Question 5

How can you improve your analytical thinking skills?

Answer 5

1. Gather information
2. Break information into tow parts (main ideas & supporting evidence
3. Examine & evaluate those two parts
4. Make connections

Question 6

How do you break information into parts

Answer 6

1. Read the questions.
2. Separate ideas – find the main idea or arguments.
3. Identify the evidence.

Question 7

How can you improve your creative thinking skills?

Answer 7

1. Combining existing elements in an innovative way
2. Generating analogies—comparisons based on a resemblance of things otherwise unlike—from looking at how things are related
3. Pondering a longstanding problem

Question 8

How can you define creativity?

Answer 8

Basically, to think creatively is to generate new ideas that promote useful change

Question 9

Gather Five Ingredients of Creativity

Answer 9

1. Belief that you can develop creativity
2. Receptiveness (accept) to new ideas
3. Comfort with time alone
4. Risk-taking and hard work
5. Acceptance of mistakes as part of the process

Question 10

How can you improve your practical thinking skills?

Answer 10

By making things happen. (You’ve analyzed a situation, you’ve come up with ideas, with practical thinking you make things happen)

Question 11

why is college and your brain an ideal team

Answer 11

Because it helps you solve problems and make decisions

Question 12

How can you ask questions?

Answer 12

-Know why you’re asking – ask useful questions
-Question in different ways – analyze, create, practice the solution
-Want to question – want to think