Pomodoro BF & Strategies

Question 1

What is Absorption

Answer 1

Background processing of previously assimilated information

Question 2

BB reason for Breaks

Answer 2

Brain needs breaks to recharge and allow for offline processing = absorption

Question 3

BS for needing to recharge brain and allow for offline processing

Answer 3

1. Short Detached breaks of mental relaxation
2. Long Detached Breaks of mental relaxation
3. Sleep

Question 4

BS: What is a detached break?

Answer 4

time away from the activity and anything else that is mentally challenging

Question 5

What 3 things must occur during a detached break?

Answer 5

1. Stand
2. Stretch
3. Take at least 3 steps

Question 6

What are the 5 best detached break activities in order?

Answer 6

1. Sleeping
2. Walking
3. Drinking
4. Gazing out window
5. Playing with animals

Question 7

On the detached break continuum, what 5 activities fall below the line?

Answer 7

1. Talking
2. Reading/Viewing
3. Interacting with digital devices
4. Responding to anything
5. Working on things other than focused activity from which you are taking a break

Question 8

What BFs do breaks satisfy?

Answer 8

1. Brains need mental relaxation in order to neutralize stress system
2. Brains need offline time in order to absorb

Question 9

What is the stress system?

Answer 9

The part of the brain that controls stress in our brains, including

Question 10

What happens with lack of mental relaxation

Answer 10

1. stress system becomes over activated

Question 11

What happens when the stress system becomes over activated?

Answer 11

1. Thinking systems in brain system diminish
2. Limbic system begins to malfunction
3. Senses become under performing
4. Biological rhythms (sleep, eating,) affected

Question 12

What happens at chronic stress levels?

Answer 12

1. Working memory suffers a loss of capacity
2. Reduction in ability to Concentrate
3. Joy of working is transformed into anxiety
4. Creativity and inspiration are transformed into irritation, procrastination and dread
5. Loss of sense of safety/security - anxiety - procrastination

Question 13

What is the Von Restorff Effect?

Answer 13

The concept that visually isolated items in a list of otherwise similar items will be better remembered

Question 14

BF: Von Restorff Effect. Why is it true?

Answer 14

Visually isolated items in a list of otherwise similar items activated focus on the isolated item. It provokes the brain to receive, absorb and store the information as memory much more readily.

Question 15

What are 2 BS related to Restorff Effect?

Answer 15

1. Highlight items on the To Do Today List at the beginning of each new Comodoro
2. Transfer an item onto a sticky to create a virtual Now List

Question 16

What is the Now List

Answer 16

The 1 thing you give your entire attention to right now, during the work period of a Comodoro.

Question 17

What is the challenge of executing the Now List

Answer 17

remaining focused such that you give no attention/focus to any other activity during the work effort session of Pomodoro

Question 18

How many items can there be on the Now List

Answer 18

0 or 1

Question 19

What is prospective memory?

Answer 19

our brains’ ability to remember upcoming plans - things we are supposed to do in the future.

Question 20

What part of the brain manages prospective memory?

Answer 20

Pre-frontal cortex

Question 21

What brain functions manage prospective memory?

Answer 21

Executive Functions

Question 22

What is retrospective memory?

Answer 22

our brains ability to store past experiences

Question 23

What activities accentuate prospective memory?

Answer 23

1. writing items to be remembered down

2. setting alerts to prompt action

Question 24

Why is it important to accentuate prospective memory?

Answer 24

Need to get prospective memory out of Working Memory because WM can hold a max of 7 items at one time. By writing it down and setting alerts as reminders, the brain feels safe that the action will occur - motivation