Focus, Diffuse Mode Flashcards
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Focus Mode Definition
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- thinking about something intensely
* pulls memory from long tern into working memory
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Diffuse Mode Definition
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- triggered when not thinking about any thing in particular (eg. sleep, running, daydreaming)
- allows the brain to solidify connections between memories (synapses) related in focus mode
- connects seemingly random memories allowing for deeper understanding of concepts
3
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Long Term memory is?
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- Like a warehouse
4
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Spaced Repetition
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- Good for learning new material
* Gives diffuse mode time to solidify the synapses
5
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What helps the brain enter diffuse mode?
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- Sleep is the major diffuse mode
- Exercise (walking, or running)
- Day Dreaming
- Meditation?
6
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What dose the brain produce when thinking?
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Metabolic Waste
* When sleeping the brain cells shrink allowing the waste to be flushed out
7
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What happens during sleep?
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- Brain enter diffuse mode
- Brain cells shrink and metabolic waste the brain produces during the day is flushed
- Brain strengthen important synapses and weakens less important ones
8
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Rehearsing Synapses before bed
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Helps strengthen ideas during impending difuse mode (sleep)
9
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Pomodoro is?
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- Technique to beat procrastination
- Method;-
1. Plan your tasks
2. Do 1 pomodoro (25 minutes focused mode)
3. Break for 5 minutes and enjoy a predefined reward
4. Repeat from 1 for predefined number of iterations
10
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Who created the Pomodoro Technique and when?
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Francesco Cirillo
1908
11
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What is released in the brain in the reward portion of pomodoro?
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Dopamine
12
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How do analogies help with learning?
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- Adds additional ways to get back to memories
* Allows a correlated memory to trigger the recall of something more complicated
13
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Synapses?
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- A relationship between neurons
- there are a million billion synapsis in the brain
- Synapsis become stronger when related neurons are called or recalled into memory at the same time
