The Learning Brain

Question 1

What is one of the best ways to learn?

Answer 1

Test

Question 2

What Lecture from the Learning Brain discusses motivation’s impact on memory?

Answer 2

Lecture #19

Question 3

What are strategies for effective practice for implicit learning such as golf?

Answer 3

SCORE - Space, Challenge and Randomize - Lecture 13 of The Learning Brain

Question 4

In the Learning Brain course which lecture discusses explicit learning - flash cards

Answer 4

lecture 7

Question 5

In the Learning Brain course, which lecture discusses implicit learning - golf?

Answer 5

lecture 10

Question 6

In the Learning Brain course which lecture discusses ‘The Aging Brain’?

Answer 6

Lecture 22

Question 7

What can be done to protect the aging brain?

Answer 7

EARS
E - Eating Mediterranean Diet
A - Be active
R - have social relationships
S - reduce Stress - Meditation

Question 8

In the Learning Brain course, which lecture discusses sleep?

Answer 8

Lecture 21

Question 9

What part of sleep helps us remember what we studied before we go to sleep?

Answer 9

NREM sleep

Question 10

how do we get to Grant Standard?

Answer 10

Better Bridge Resources

Bridge articles

Keeping up with conventions

Question 11

How to get to video on ‘how to fill out convention card?

Answer 11

Better Bridge Resources

Convention card - also other YouTube bridge classes

Question 12

How do you get to Better Bridge online

Answer 12

better bridge.com

Question 13

How do you find how other bridge player’s scored on a hand and how they played the hand?

Answer 13

click on history (right Side)

click on tournament you want to see

click on board you want to see

click on other tables - bottom right - you will see how the other tables did on that board

To see how that table played the hand. click on next trick (bottom middle)

Question 14

In BBO how do you understand Robot’s system?

Answer 14

click on help (top middle)

click on Robot’s System (left side)

click on here

Question 15

What are 4 key points about memory?

Answer 15

1. We remember interesting information that we process deeply
2. We remember visuospatial information better than verbal information
3. We remember information connected to what we already know
4. We remember information that we test ourselves on
   The Aging Brain 7

Question 16

What is the single best predictor of an individual’s chess skill?

Answer 16

The best chess players follow a similar strategy. They will often spend several hours a day replaying the games of grand masters one move at a time, trying to understand the expert’s thinking at each step. Indeed, the single best predictor of an individual’s chess skill is not the amount of chess he’s played against opponents, but rather the amount of time he’s spent sitting alone working through old games.

Question 17

what is the most important feature of documentation?

Answer 17

that it’s content is searchable - this is true of text, notes, internet, artificial intelligence

Question 18

what is the benefit of writing things down?

Answer 18

it gives you extra insight, or remind you of a consequence you hadn’t fully considered

Question 19

what is the random thoughts diary?

Answer 19

it tracks ideas without in-depth analysis - ideas for new features; problems you may encounter and need to research; alternative implementations

Question 20

what is the code change diary?

Answer 20

it tracks code changes in enough detail that you can recreate or undo them

Question 21

what is a great way to make a memory durable?

Answer 21

Imagine this: You and I are both trying to learn the sixty-four concepts from the introductory psychology course. I study the list for ten minutes on each of five nights. Each of those nights, when I start studying again, I’ve forgotten some of the content in the previous twenty-four hours. It’s frustrating; it feels as though my studying is not going very well. But relearning is a great way to make memory durable.