Procrastination and memory

Question 1

Which features does procrastination have in common with addiction?

Answer 1

It offers temporary excitement and relief from sometimes boring reality.

Question 2

What are the 4 stages of habit?

Answer 2

1) the Cue
2) the Routine
3) the Reward
4) the Belief

Question 3

What is the Cue in habits?

Answer 3

The trigger that launches the habit (the Routine).

Question 4

How the Routine of a habit can affect your life?

Answer 4

It can be useful, useless and harmful

Question 5

What is the best way to avoid procrastination? What is the best technique to avoid procrastination?

Answer 5

The best way to avoid procrastination is to focus on process instead of product. The product actually triggers the pain that causes you to procrastinate. Pomodoro technique heals to beat procrastination.

Question 6

Why focusing on product can cause procrastination?

Answer 6

The product actually triggers the pain that causes you to procrastinate.

Question 7

What are the four categories of the Cue?

Answer 7

1 - location
2 - time
3 - how you feel
4 - reactions to either people or to something that just happened

Question 8

How to beat procrastination? (7 ways)

Answer 8

1) Keep a planner journal.
2) Commit yourself to serrano routines and tasks each day.
3) Delay reward until you finish your task.
4) Watch for procrastination cues.
5) Gain trust in your new system (work with focus and relax without worry and guilt when planned).
6) Have backup plans for when you still procrastinate.
7) Eat your frogs first.

Question 9

Which part of the brain is in charge of storing new long term memories?

Answer 9

Hippocampus is an important part of a brain system for learning and memory of facts and events.

Question 10

What is consolidation, reactivation and reconsolidation?

Answer 10

Consolidation finds the brain in active state – forms new long term memories through modification of synapses on the dendrites of neurons.

The memory can be stored for a long time until it is retrieved and reinstated (process called Reactivation).

Memories are not fixed – they change each time you recall it, the process is called Reconsolidation.

Question 11

__________ finds the brain in active state – forms new long term memories through modification of synapses on the dendrites of neurons.

Answer 11

Consolidation

Question 12

The memory can be stored for a long time until it is retrieved and reinstated (process called ___________).

Answer 12

Reactivation

Question 13

Memories are not fixed – they change each time you recall it, the process is called ______________.

Answer 13

Reconsolidation

Question 14

Why it is important to learn things for a longer period of time instead of in one go?

Answer 14

Consolidation and reconsolidation also occur during sleep, that’s why an hour of studying spread through few weeks vs one day is more efficient.

Question 15

How are neuron supporting cells called?

Answer 15

Glial cells (or Glia)

Question 16

How are glial cells that provide nutrients to neurones called?

Answer 16

Astrocytes

Question 17

What do Astrocytes do?

Answer 17

Astrocytes provide nutrients to neurons, maintain extracellular (outside the cell) ion balance, and are involved w/repair following injury. Might as well have an important role in learning

Question 18

What behaviours do the prefrontal cortex influence?

Answer 18

1) People’s ability to do complex analysis.
2) Human social behaviour.
3) People’s ability to make decisions.
4) People’s ability to plan.

Question 19

When do different parts of the brain reach maturation?

Visual cortex and prefrontal cortex

Answer 19

The visual cortex reaches maturation in childhood.

The prefrontal cortex is the last part of the cortex to mature.