brain is a very complex part of the body that has everything to do with daily life and the ability to learn. As many people do not understand there are two parts of the brain and each works completely different in how one will learn and retain information. Why is the brain such a complex system and has the ability to adapt to every situation. We are going to be looking at the Left and Right side of the Brain and how each hemisphere works from the time you are a child and starting to receive information and the brain as a whole. We will also be looking into the Right side of the brain and how it learns faster as the Left side retains information. There has been a lot of research and case studies on the brain and how different people from different back grounds learn based on ethnic groups such as the American Indians and how they learn different with their brain.
When trying to understand how the brain works you have to understand how complex the brain is and how well it adapts to the information that it receives and processes the information. The brain controls everything that you do from breathing to moving your arms and legs to emotions, as well as many other functions of the body. (Pritchard, 2009) The brain being a very complex, and has to be addressed in several different ways. No one person learns the same but information will be retained and stored as part of the learning process. An “example of this idea of variety is that based on the V-A-K description of learning styles by Levine (2003)” (Pritchard, 2009) Levine looked at this in a different light and that you can transform things with learning like changing verbal to visual. By changing these things up there are different approaches to how you retain information. With ...
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...ch and case studies on the brain you can see how different people from different back grounds learn based on ethnic groups such as the American Indians and how they learn differently. Overall neither side of the brain is better than the other, they both have their own functions and have to work together as a whole.
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Cognitive theory states that learning capacity is what going on inside student’s mind. According to cognitive theory, learning is not just a difference in behaviour, it is a modification in the way a learner thinks. Following it is the information processing model which describes that one’s brain has internal structures which select and operate incoming material (Dynamic Flight 2003). According to studies performed by the Laboratoire de Psychologie du Développement et de l'Education de l'Enfant (CNRS/Université Paris Descartes/Université de Caen Basse-Normandie), in collaboration with the NeuroSpin Center (CEA), brain shape does affect learner’s learning capacities. Everyone has cognitive control which is a crucial component of intelligence and learning capacity. However, the difference of our brain does affect it and therefore it differs from individuals. The scientists explained that if the asymmetry of the right and left hemisphere corresponds to more lateralization, the greater specialization of each hemisphere. This helps to improve the ability to resolve tasks. Learners whose two hemispheres were asymmetrical at the level of the cingulate cortex achieved better results and displayed greater capacity for cognitive control. From this, we can know that everyone may have different
Hilgard et, al.; (1996) defines learning as a “process by which an activity originates or is changed through reacting to an encountered situation, provided that the characteristics of the change in activity cannot be explained on the basis of native response tendencies, maturation,or temporary states of the organism.’’ I observed the adult learners were generally slow learners. They had difficulty in understanding neuroscience structure of the brain and modern theories of memory strategies by the behaviorist. However, he facilitated the lesson doing repetition of concepts until adult learners were satisfied. Some of the adult learners were afraid of failure if evaluated during learning session. He was able to avoid this problem to the best of his knowledge, he did not threaten or ridicule his learners. I considered the activity based which includes discussion and stimulus-response technique the most
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