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Metacognition: Test Your Knowledge!

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” CORRECT ANSWER TRUE Indeed, metacognition can be summed up as the ability to go “beyond” (meta) the “act of learning” (cognition). For Flavell, metacognition “refers to the subject’s knowledge of their own cognitive processes and products. Some 500 years B.C.,

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The Advantages and Potential of Virtual Reality: Test Your Knowledge!

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Of all the high-fidelity simulation technologies, VR is by far the most powerful in convincing the user’s brain that they are actually in a world of its own and in generating sensations and emotions as intense as those experienced in a real-world setting. I am having an experience that will have an impact on my true reality.”

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The Fascinating Memory: Test Your Knowledge!

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Storage (consolidation): This corresponds to the retention of learned information over time after the brain has sufficiently repeated it. D) When it is overloaded, the exchanges between the three brain regions involved in its functioning are short-circuited. C) It allows us to retain only 4 or 5 elements consciously. CORRECT ANSWER B.

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Brain activity in numbers

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Our brain is never really at rest. This is what neuroscientists have uncovered by discovering the functioning of its so-called “default” network, which is activated in a way that is opposite to the executive network that manages our high-level cognitive processes. Learning and Forgetting: New Perspectives on the Brain.

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Metacognition in 10 points

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For Flavell, metacognition “refers to one’s knowledge concerning one’s own cognitive processes or anything related to them. “Cognition” refers to all the processes related to our mental faculties: attention, reasoning, memorization, conceptualization, etc. Here are ten points to better understand it!

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Motivation and Success from the Brain’s Perspective: Test Your Knowledge

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More recently, neuroscience has provided new keys to understanding the phenomenon based on the observation of its mechanisms in the brain. A) Before making an effort, the brain makes a cost-benefit assessment. B) In the brain, effort results in the activation of the prefrontal cortex. CORRECT ANSWER C. .” C) Our age.

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Stress and Learning: Test Your Knowledge!

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CORRECT ANSWER FALSE Some people make a distinction between negative stress and positive stress, calling the latter “eustress” and associating it with short-term stress that provides the energy and impetus needed to meet a challenge, boost performance, stimulate creativity and so on. Find out more: Stress and memory 3.