Phase II Part 3 & Part 5 Questions (all group members contributed)

SURVEY RESULTS

FEMALES			MALES
Kind of learner	# of Students		Kind of learner	# of Students
Visual	17		Visual	5
Auditory	5		Auditory	4
Kinesthetic	18		Kinesthetic	8
Visual/Auditory	3		Visual/Auditory	2
Auditory/Kinesthetic	0		Auditory/Kinesthetic	0
Visual/Kinesthetic	0		Visual/Kinesthetic	1
All 3	0		All 3	4
Hours Spent Studying			Hours Spent Studying
0	2		0	7
1	11		1	8
2	20		2	5
3	9		3	3
4	1		4	1
Average GPA			Average GPA
A	30		A	17
B	13		B	7
C	0		C	0
D	0		D	0

TOTALS
Kind of learner	# of Students
Visual	22
Auditory	9
Kinesthetic	26
Visual/Auditory	5
Auditory/Kinesthetic	0
Visual/Kinesthetic	1
All 3	4
Hours Spent Studying
0	9
1	19
2	25
3	12
4	2
Average GPA
A	47
B	20
C	0
D	0

PHASE 2, PART 3

Reflect on your data collection.

This helped us learned what type of learners there are amongst our peers. I think this survey was a very useful and accurate way to collect our data because we handed the survey to them in person. Where if it was online the survey could have easily been blown off due to laziness. The next time around, we could add more in depth questions to supplement our data.

Real World Application.

Our data is applicable to the real world because we can tell teachers and professors to help them come up with better teaching strategies based on the types of learners. We are going to share this data through a presentation and make it available to teachers to help them implicate this into their class.

PHASE 2, PART 5

1. 1. Cognitive psychology deals with the internal mental processes. Chapter ten deals with thinking and language, chapter nine deals with memory and chapter nine deals with memory which all have to do with the brain.

2. 2. The topic of interest is neuroscience and behavior. The four categories that go into neuroscience would be neural communication, the nervous system, the brain, and the endocrine system. The subcategories for neural communication are neurons, how neurons communicate and how neurotransmitters influence us. The subcategories of the nervous system are the peripheral nervous system and the central nervous system. The subcategories for the brain are the tools of discovery, lower-level brain structures, the cerebral cortex, and our divided brains. If we were to go into detail about a subcategory one of the prototypes may be the parts of the neuron and how it works.

3. 3. Functional fixedness can affect problem solving in a negative way because it corrupts our problem solving process since we see objects as fixed and unchanging. An example of this would be how the locks on doors have one key, but in reality we can use others things than just the lock to unlock the door, like a paperclip.

4) How can you use what you know about thinking and language to improve your learning strategy? Provide two examples.

We should need to make sure that the students can grasp the main concept of neuroscience before we start to teach more in-depth information. This will make it easier to understand the more difficult aspects of the information. We should also use repetition when giving the information. This will let the ideas and concepts really sink into the students minds and really allow them to understand it.

5) How can you use your knowledge of language acquisition and the way that we read, speak and think to help create your learning strategy?

We learn a lot of our language as a child by observing and hearing what other people say and watching TV or listening to music. So if we create a video for the students to watch instead of just lecturing to them, it may be very beneficial. They will get to watch something while listening to the information; which should hold their attention better and have them more focused. Also students can take notes during the video, if they learn best that way.  

6. Summarize how you will used thinking and language in your learning strategy, below. Make sure to include at least 6 different ways you are going to utilize this knowledge. 

• we will make sure that the student know what neuroscience is and how it is defined
• we will use repetition while teach in order for information be picked up on
• we will have the students use observation (fore example: a memorable video) because observing can be a very effective way of learning
• we will give the students the option of taking notes because some learn best that way but others do not
• we will provide the students with essential questions to think about during the video
• we will point out important information or topics during the video